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...hotly disputed matter of billings has long contributed some of the most colorful items in the lore of show business. When Can-Can opened in 1953, Actor Hans Conried showed up on the sidewalk outside the theater with a stepladder, climbed to the marquee with a tape measure, and determined precisely the altitude of the letters that spelled his name. When 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra (now in production) is finally released, Richard Burton will be listed above Rex Harrison. If, however, Harrison should be knighted before then, his name will go above Burton's-but only...
...reaction might be to the appeals now pending before it from other sit-in demonstrators who have been convicted on other charges throughout the South. And last week Baton Rouge cops arrested 72 more Negro students. Among the charges: obstructing "the free, convenient and normal use" of a sidewalk...
...Kamina base, 260 miles away. In a quiet, bungalow-lined side street, where some of the remaining white housewives strolled with their children, the whoosh of a low-flying U.N. jet brought sudden pandemonium as Katanga soldiers and hastily armed civilians jumped from their cars or stepped off the sidewalk to fire excitedly with pistols, tommy guns and rifles...
Even such small success came hard. Last September the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an end to all bus depot segregation, but in McComb, no sooner were "white" and "colored" signs removed from the depot than local police set them up on the sidewalk outside. A federal court ordered the new signs removed. Early last week three Negro men and two girls were dispatched by the activist Congress of Racial Equality to test McComb's obedience to federal authority. In the depot they were set upon, beaten, and driven into the street by young white toughs...
...Western prestige. Parke-Bernet (pronounced Eer-net) issued about 850 tickets for seats and standing room in the main gallery, but almost twice as many people showed up on the big night, and tickets were selling for $50 on the black market. A queue began forming on the sidewalk more than an hour before the auction was to begin; not only Parke-Bernet's main gallery, but also three others, equipped with closed-circuit TV, were jammed to overflowing. Everyone from Billy Rose to Paul Mellon, from Perle Mesta to Director James Rorimer of the Metropolitan Museum...