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...that Ansco will eventually compete with Technicolor. In some Sixteen Fathoms scenes Ansco Color, like the new Rouxcolor of Paris' Roux brothers (TIME, June 7), seemed far more natural than the more expensive Technicolor. But in other scenes Ansco Color was washed out, and faces were often only pale blobs. Ansco blamed most of the faults on the low ($175,000) producing budget, hopes to do better next time, in an $800,000 United Artists production...
...London last week, politicians, bankers and bureaucrats, answering an insistent jangle of telephones, turned pale at what they heard. South African gold shares broke wide open on the stock exchange, tumbled more than $300 million. Winston Churchill augustly gloomed: "A great world statesman has fallen, and with him his country will undergo a period of anxiety and perhaps a temporary eclipse...
Nothing But Flops. At 23 Gide was a pale, thin neurotic who roamed the streets of Paris with brown beard, affectedly long hair and a spectacular cape. Timid and tongue-tied in public, he was constantly depressed about his work, his cousin Emmanuèele's refusal to marry him and the discovery that he had tuberculosis...
Gorgeous, small (5 ft. 9 in.) as wrestlers go, paraded down the aisle surrounded by policemen. His once-black hair is long, marcelled by a beauty parlor and bleached an improbable pale blond. By theatrical standards, his act is too broadly conceived and overplayed-but it goes well in a sports arena. Men jeer him with catcalls and wolf-whistles. When a woman fan heckles him, he retorts acidly: "I told you not to come down tonight, Mother...
...docks at Haifa, 400 Jews gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum under the watchful eyes of Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land ... of our fathers...