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...even over the dawning realization that a disastrous depression is never again likely to halt the march of productivity. At the moment in history when this unique economic achievement was recognized, the U.S. lost its long security against heavy enemy attack; it became the first in the line of paramount nations to live in the knowledge that between any nightfall and morning a fifth of its people and a third of its production centers could be destroyed. Over this prospect the U.S. does not grieve or tremble. In a field of tension between unprecedented poles of security and insecurity, this...
...Sabrina (Paramount). When Hollywood's abracadabblers find a new formula for turning celluloid into gold, they overwork it every time. For Sabrina, based on Samuel Taylor's Broadway hit, Paramount's magicians used the same elements that mixed so well in Roman Holiday: Actress Audrey Hepburn, Director Billy Wilder, a switch on the old Cinderella story. Gold, in a word, is guaranteed at the boxoffice, and this is never less than glittering entertainment, but somehow a certain measure of lead has found its way into the formula...
...Stage 17 of its Hollywood lot last week, Paramount Pictures Corp. held a press preview of White Christmas in VistaVision, its new wide-screen process and the newest entry in moviedom's gadgetry sweepstakes. Viewers thought that VistaVision resulted, as advertised, in greater clarity on the screen, but few predicted sensational effects at the box office. Said one producer: "CinemaScope got there first amd VistaVision isn't novel and different enough...
...dangers from the gigantic Communist source of evil in the world are unending," said Hoover. "Amid these malign forces, our haunting anxiety and our paramount necessity is the defense of our country...
...advantages often play an important part in creating the urge to merge, as in the Hilton-Statler combination (TIME, Aug. 16). So do changing business tides. The Paramount Theatre chain, making money in a troubled industry, was a natural to combine with American Broadcasting, which was losing money in the promising new field of television. One of the reasons advanced for Oilman Clint Murchison's current interest in Follansbee Steel (see Tycoons) is that the steel company has a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, something that Murchison has never...