Word: secondhands
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...settings are a real wonder-perfect secondhand château; and the photography catches them in just that faintly too-dreamy glow in which they are seen by Mlle. Julie's girls. The acting is first rate. In scene after scene, Edwige Feuillere's performance as Julie rings like fine glass. Marie-Claire Olivia as Olivia does very well with a fairly monotonous part, and Simone Simon is real as the spoiled, catlike Cara. but perhaps does not display quite strongly enough the ravages of her moral mange...
Hard-driving President Malcom McLean, 40, who built his company up from a secondhand dump truck, has already bought the S.C. Loveland shipping company for its franchise rights to operate coastal routes, is negotiating a $24 million contract with Bethlehem Steel for four 6,000-ton trailer transports. With the ICC's blessing, McLean hopes to have his ships ready by late...
...first year, with his usual energy, Grant took seven courses (four was standard), lived in an attic, wore secondhand clothes and did odd jobs to add to his savings. By the end of the year, his money ran out, so Grant took a job selling roofing in the Southwest until he saved enough for a second try at Harvard. After struggling through the second year, he gave up and moved to a cheap room in Hoboken, having lost his "illusions about what an education could do for me." By limiting himself to 11? a day for lunch and not much...
...unestimated mountain of "clothing for Korea" was sold on the secondhand market and the profits pocketed by the pitchmen...
...September day in 1938, Papa David Solomon of NBC's Life Can Be Beautiful gave shelter in his secondhand bookstore to a teen-age slum girl named Chichi and put her to bed on a pallet in the rear of his shop. This week, 15 years later, Chichi is only about five years older and she is still camped in Papa David's back room...