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...search for the war was the trip last week of LIFE Photographer John Dominis, the Associated Press's John Griffin, and Magnum Photographer Marc Riboud. Armed with a letter from rebel headquarters giving them passage to the front, the trio set out in a wayward bus named Picnic. Stumbling across a battle convoy, they produced the letter-only to learn that they were among government troops...
...recorded radio beat of tom-toms throbbed through the city of Accra (pop. 200,000). Barelegged, toga-clad Ghanaians danced down to the beach for a mass picnic, snaked through the streets in roaring torchlight procession, cheered the unveiling of a larger-than-lifesize statue of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 48, "Founder of the Nation...
Despite his penny pinching, gambling brought Harry Cohn his biggest thrills and his greatest triumphs at the box office; e.g., no one else liked the chances of The Jolson Story, From Here to Eternity or Picnic. Cohn made millions on them...
...Sawyer. Penrod and Skippy in a tradition of carrying a dead goldfish in pants pocket, enduring the first black eye and the first crush on teacher, selling water on the hottest day of the year and seeing through the emperor's clothes with such remarks as "A picnic is when you go out in the country and eat food off the dirt." Writer-Producers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, who are fathers as well as savvy old hands at scripting radio-TV shows, e.g., Amos 'n' Andy, manage to combine low-pressure comedy with universal family situations...
When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...