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...years ago a Ruml plan led to a revolution in the way the U.S. collects its taxes. Last week, in his first book, Tomorrow's Business (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), rotund Beardsley Ruml unveiled a new plan. This time Mr. Ruml was far more ambitious. He aimed at something like a revolution in the way 1) many U.S. businessmen think; 2) the U.S. thinks about business...
QUEBEC Houde's Hope When the doors of Montreal's Hôtel de Ville were opened one morning last week, rotund Camillien Houde was waiting outside. The former Mayor of Montreal marched briskly to the city clerk's office, filed again as candidate for Mayor. After four years' internment for having advised Canadians not to register for the draft (TIME, Aug. 28), Camillien, free again, was seeking his old $10,000-a-year...
Venerable, rotund Senator Paul Cuttoli, 80-year-old Algeria-born Radical Socialist, delivered the opening address. When he denounced the cartels, there was loud applause.' General de Gaulle spoke briefly. When he said: "We must . . . undertake great reforms," there was loud applause. Then the Assembly chose homely, rhetorical-Félix Gouin, 56, veteran Socialist deputy and head of the Assembly in Algiers, as its president, buckled down to work...
...Statler dance, a political rally or a premiere movie, to the Bali dance routine Chief Pearson puts us through on a Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
Hitchcock was never like this. Given a plot and a cast as good as this picture offers, the rotund master of mystery would have turned out a film to tingle the spines of audiences in every corner of the globe, but Hitchcock did not direct this one and it shows it. Even luscious Barbara Stanwyck, a new and surprisingly good Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson at his best fail to save "Double Indemnity" from the bottomloss list of Hollywood's fumbled chances...