Word: slickness
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...Halper (David Wayne) brings his bride Nellie (Jean Peters) to the whistle-stop town of Sevillinois in 1895, and proudly shows her his two-chair parlor. From there on, as the soundtrack resounds to the strain of the title song: 1) Nellie runs off to Chicago with a slick Hardware-Store Owner Hugh Marlowe and dies in a train accident; 2) the shop burns down, and Wayne builds a new four-chair shop with an electric rotation barber pole; 3) brash young Benny Halper (Tommy Morton) grows up and marries Hardwareman Marlowe's red-haired daughter Eadie (Helene Stanley...
Since the start of the cold war, the U.S. has had only two direct ways of spreading its ideas in Russia: through the Voice of America and a handsome, LIFE-sized, slick-paper magazine called Amerika. The Russians can often jam out the Voice, but they have never been able to down Amerika, published by the State Department. Nobody knows how effective the magazine really is, but from the amount of space devoted to attacking it in the Russian press, State concludes that it is being read and discussed. Another measure of Amerika's strength is that the Russians...
...Atlas Steels, Ltd. to illustrate the firm's annual report. He discovered that he had to spend two or three days planning his shots, but could never ask a worker for permission to take his picture until just a few minutes beforehand: "Otherwise they would wash up, slick down their hair, and look most unnatural." He needed dozens of flashes for some shots; on others used only the glow of hot steel. Karsh was fascinated, went back a second time, and now plans to take a few industrial assignments each year...
...situation, and can only grind away at what is quickly apparent and largely unalterable. Themselves beset by their material, the authors get as overwrought as their characters; they lose perspective about something that, treated more casually, might seem more heartbreaking. But however uneven, Sunday Breakfast is at least not slick...
...with rookies. No one expected miracles-but neither did the Braves' owners expect their team in June to be wallowing in seventh place. Last week, following baseball's usual law-replace a losing manager -the Braves fired Holmes. The new manager: Jolly Charley Grimm, 53, a onetime slick-fielding first baseman for Pittsburgh (1919-24) and Chicago (1925-36) and a three-time pennant-winning manager of the Cubs...