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...Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. The most impressive growth has come in book retailing, notably the cluster of B. Dalton bookshops that Dayton's has opened in the Middle West and West in the past two years. This month the company strengthened this division by acquiring the eight-store Pickwick chain, Southern California's leading bookseller...
...widely varying backgrounds and points of view to work in concert. Though he was a courtly and compassionate man, Luce also had the magisterial presence of a Koussevitzky. Tall, erect, with clear blue eyes that could rake a room like a laser beam?or twinkle as merrily as Mr. Pickwick's ?he talked with a staccato concentration of word and thought that one associate described as "jammed machinegun" style. And, as his pastor, Dr. David H. C. Read, noted last week, "he listened too?with an intensity you could almost hear...
...this season, Gottfried has informed his readers that "Arlene Francis has the vocal range of a telephone dial tone," that Pickwick's "cast, whether it is singing, dancing, talking or just plain standing around, always seems to be just plain standing around," and that the Danton's Death lead, Alan Bergmann, "has a face that not even a fly could twitch-there is not an expression, a glance, an emotion that could cross it (not even, I suspect, a shadow...
...drama were taxidermy, Harry Secombe could scarcely be faulted. Perhaps Madame Tussaud's should put in a bid for him at the end of the run. His Mr. Pickwick is a no-neck John Bull with a jellybelly. He is full of music-hall antics that date, but not back to the 19th century. His fellow Pickwickians are animated period costumes equally devoid of personality...
Maybe less so. Merrick, in order to join the U.S.O. tour, had just missed the first first night of his 40 since entering show business in 1954. The show was Pickwick, and it was a critical bust (see THEATER). Smarting from the reviews, which had been phoned to him in Tokyo,* the splenetic producer tore into Herald Tribune Critic Walter Kerr with an intemperance to match Radio Hanoi. Kerr (who is a Roman Catholic), said Merrick, "panned Pickwick because the Pope was saying Mass at Yankee Stadium that night, and Walter was simply sore that...