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...Manhattan to Miami will have Staples-Smith displays costing from $1,000 to $75,000. Store owners credit the company and its president, Cecilia Staples, with some of the best windows yet designed. All are planned to the last ribbon, then built with every material from ermine to gumdrops popcorn and broken beer bottles to simulate amber...
Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who has recently been cooking deals like popcorn (TIME, Nov. 9), plans to build a $6,000,000, 400-room luxury hotel in Cairo. The Egyptian government and Misr Bank will put up the money, give Hilton a 20-year lease...
British readers take to 33-year-old Geoffrey Cotterell's novels as naturally as U.S. movie addicts to popcorn. His five novels have sold a tidy 80,000 copies, and four of them have been British book-club choices. Well buttered with stock situations and salted with everyday speech, the Cotterell brand of popcorn is easy to munch but slim fare as a literary meal. Strait and Narrow, his first novel to be published in the U.S., was about a go-getting young Briton whose law career rose almost as fast as his character dropped. In Westward...
...America, Neva Jane Langley, around Vancouver, B.C. Reporter Jack Wasserman began to worry about the future of the race. "I walked through Stanley Park on Sunday with the prettiest girl in North America, and nobody even whistled-in fact, we had a hard time getting served at the park popcorn concession." Even more disillusioning, Neva refused to pose for cheesecake, because "the winner is picked for beauty, poise and talent, so posing in a bathing suit would undo all the good work the foundation is trying...
...cover story and your speculation as to "how real can movies be" [TiME, June 8], you neglect a mention of the "feelies," [Aldous] Huxley's prophetic description [in Brave New World) of what civilization will be satiating itself on in some future popcorn bazaar. The feelies could not only be seen, smelt and heard but they could be "felt" with the aid of knobs attached to the arms of the viewer's chair. Thus a passionate kiss will become a personal sensation and a painful blow will become a source of masochistic satisfaction...