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Last week there was another note of joy. The Dow-Jones industrial average surged forward to 276.76, a shade higher than the peak of last September and the best level since April...
Encouraged by all this, plus Eisenhower's victory, the stock market kept rising steadily. This week the Dow-Jones industrial average hit 275.08, only a shade below the bull-market peak...
...Italy's film industry grows, so do its troubles. In recent months the state, which holds the purse strings, has begun to pressure the industry to shade down its realism in favor of more "constructive" pictures which show the sunnier side of Italian life. It also faces a bigger danger in that the more it succeeds by being different from Hollywood, the more it may try to imitate Hollywood. So far, the Italians have steered clear of both perils, and their lusty young movie industry shows plenty of signs of further growth...
French Orchestral Masterworks (Minneapolis Symphony, Antal Dorati conducting; Mercury). Ravel's Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte and Debussy's Three Nocturnes receive clean, vigorous performances that are a shade too sturdy for their moods of fragile classicism and vaporous impressionism; the orchestra sounds fine in Berlioz' Roman Carnival Overture. Recording: realistic, with a wide range of volume...
...since colonial days, when the "common" was the hub of most New England villages, parks have played an important part in U.S. urban life. Fifty years ago (and even today in many localities), the traditional city park consisted of a generous area of well-kept green grass, sprinkled with shade trees and sometimes with flowers, gravel walks for strollers, hard benches for sitters, usually an iron or stone fountain, and often a wooden bandstand. Now the trend is toward parks which are useful as well as ornamental...