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...first try in the world rerun market, BBC-TV is riding on The Third, Man series, based loosely on the adventures of Harry Lime-so loosely in fact, that Novelist Graham Greene, who wrote the original screenplay, has sternly dissociated himself from his kid brother's serial. Though The Third Man got a lukewarm critical reception in London, it has been bought for $1,500,000 (recouping the production cost) by Budweiser and Rheingold beers, will be shown on U.S. screens this fall. Another sales success: a Canadian Mountie series, snapped up by 20 U.S. cities the first week...
...correct answer, the Arthur Murray studios handed out "$25 in free lessons." But all too often, said FTC, the lucky winner found that he had to buy a complete course to collect his prize. FTC also rapped the "Lucky Buck" contest ("Check your dollar bills. If any of the serial numbers contains a 5 and 0 you've got a winner"), and objected to high-pressure sales talks which it said "coerce" prospects into signing up for dance courses...
...pass lists the African's name, birthplace, and tribal affiliation, contains his picture and serial number, has space for a receipt to prove that he has paid his taxes and to list his arrests, and unless it is signed each month by his employer, the African can be herded with the other unemployed into a native reservation...
...Ingmar Bergman to produce an enormous canon of cinema, comprising 22 feature films and at least four other scripts, that merges into a single vast and violent masterpiece, a work of volcanic profundity and sometimes tumid pretentiousness, of snorting pornography, sly comedy and ripe ironic wisdom-a sort of serial Faust...
...brighter colors; to Schuller, it suggested a hushed, dense background of woodwinds, interrupted by "the brighter yellow of the trumpets and high strings." Klee's famed Twittering Machine, which looks something like an inverted mobile from which fishing lures have been suspended, inspired Schuller to a snatch of serial music in which the orchestra beeped, squeaked and rasped like a rusty hinge while the muted brasses burped out shreds of sound. Little Blue Devil, a complex of overlapping triangles, rectangles and pentagons, suggested a perky blues mood. Arab Village, an aerial view in yellows and browns, inspired Schuller...