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Dispensing with the jargon of professional economists, Dwight Eisenhower last week issued an economic report to the nation that began bluntly with one of the biggest pieces of news since V-E day. "The paramount fact about the economy at midyear," he wrote, "is that the recent decline in economic activity has come to a halt." Two big specifics...
Rear Window (Paramount), just possibly the second most entertaining picture (after The 39 Steps) ever made by Alfred Hitchcock, is the movie equivalent of what boxing circles call "the handkerchief trick." The trick, as Philadelphia's Tommy Loughran used to play it, is simply to plant both feet on a standard-size pocket handkerchief, fold both hands behind the back, and fight a full three-minute round against a free-moving opponent without once taking the feet off the handkerchief...
...promised that for the next year, at least, he would not seek public office. He arranged for the Vatican's vital nihil obstat, delivered by a spokesman: "The Vatican welcomes this induction of new energy in the Christian Democratic Party, without of course disparaging for one moment the paramount merits of the man who has now decided to step into the background." Vatican approval ended the risk that the party's right wing and Luigi Gedda's Catholic Action group would defy Fanfani...
...prove this point, Hollywood's Daily Variety listed a few examples of ad copy culled from the Los Angeles papers: Princess of the Nile (20th Century-Fox) : "No woman with a soul ever danced like Shalimar." About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount): "She gave more of herself in six weeks than most women give in a lifetime!" Hell Below Zero (Columbia): "You'll never forget the fight in Capetown . . . the kiss on deck . . . the rendezvous in the cabin." Said Variety: "It was contended by some that public intelligence had outgrown some of the [Production Code] bans-but more important, that...
...Pictures Living It Up (Paramount) is a screen version of Hazel Flagg, the Broadway musical, which was in turn a retuning of filmdom's famous Bronx cheer for Manhattan, Nothing Sacred (1937) Jerry Lewis now plays Carole Lombard's movie part. Alas, Carole was prettier. She was also funnier. And Janet Leigh, playing the old Fredric March part, adds body to the fun but no flavor. Somewhere along the production line the rasp has been strained out of the raspberry, but what's left is still the pleasantest session with Jerry Lewis and Partner Dean Martin...