Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie laudably subdues the sensationalism of Irving Stone's best seller of 1934, which is probably a safe move in an externally more art-appreciating society of 1956. Producer John Houseman and director Vincente Minnelli have taken considerable expense to record as faithfully as possible the tragic life of a talented, frightened man who, tormented by failures and epilepsy, lusted for punishment and death more than for life...
PORTABLE TV SETS now account for 20% of industry's sales, 15% of its dollar volume. One major TV maker (Emerson) reports that its portable TV-phono-radio has become its biggest seller...
...loudest product of a reedy, bespectacled 24-year-old named Michel Legrand. Although the people who buy his records have only recently become aware that he exists, Composer-Conductor Legrand has in the last three years become one of the most successful popular musicians in France and a top seller on both the U.S. and French record markets...
...first half to 243,541 in the same period this year, the sharpest (42%) slide in the industry. Plymouth's share of total auto production, which stood at 9.92% in 1955's first six months, has fallen to 7.63%. Dodge, the company's No. 2 seller, has fallen from 179,188 units to 108,545, a drop of 40%. Its proportion of auto output fell from 4.2% in 1955's first half to 3.4% this year. The De Soto decline from 79,895 to 57,070 represents a 29% fall in output and a percent...
Model's Secret. Born the illegitimate daughter of a hard-working peasant woman, Suzanne Valadon was raised in the Paris streets like countless gamins, working as a seamstress, waitress, vegetable seller, and drawing for pleasure on the sidewalks with pieces of coal. Tradition has it that she first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used...