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When the President stepped into the Cabinet Room one morning for a meeting of the National Security Council, Vice President Nixon, Mrs. Eisenhower and a whole crowd of well-wishers greeted him with cries of "Surprise." Nixon pushed a package, all done up in gold paper and blue ribbon, toward Ike. Under this set of circumstances, the President of the U.S. acted just the way almost everyone tries to: surprised, delighted, and that's-just-what-I-wanted. When he opened the package and discovered an eight-volume set of The Great Centuries of Painting, Ike exclaimed: "For goodness...
TRIAL, by Don Mankiewicz (306 pp.; Harper; $3.50), is the $10,000 winner of the Harper Prize Novel Contest, but the ribbon it really earns is a piece of black crape. The book is a flaccid throwback to the I-never-had-a-chance school of social protest popular in the '30s. Author Mankiewicz, 32, nephew of movie Writer-Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town...
Actress Lollobrigida won the Silver Ribbon (the Italian Oscar) for her work in this picture, and in truth she throws herself into the part so violently that once or twice she almost throws herself out of her dress. She is perhaps unwise thus to spoil her own act by inviting comparison with a far more spectacular...
...portrait opposite, which has been purchased by the Kress Foundation for Washington's National Gallery, proves the point. Napoleon stands plump and solemn in the white satiny knickers and gold epaulets of a general of the Chasseurs of his own Imperial Guard. He wears dangling on a red ribbon the medal of the Legion of Honor, which he himself instituted. Every detail of the picture shows David's utter and icy control of his medium; the whole shows something more-his red-hot hero worship. For all its artificiality of costume and scene, his picture gives Napoleon...
...past few years, suggestion programs have proved so valuable that some 300 companies, Government departments and agencies have banded together in their own National Association of Suggestion Systems to promote the idea. Such blue-ribbon firms as Standard Oil (N.J.), National Biscuit. Sears, Roebuck, Internation al Business Machines, John Hancock Life. American Airlines and Westinghouse have elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award...