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...difficult and dramatically unrewarding film. Like most of the great European directors who work in Hollywood, Preminger, takes little of America for granted, and his films are marked by a distinctly individual way of seeing the world. In his early films, Preminger's vision encompassed a sordid and neurotic small-town America of con-men and disillusioned cops, with much of the action set in greasy spoons, cars, and hotel lobbies. Preminger must feel that his later films are larger; actually they are only longer and better designed: the best passages in The Cardinal deal with abortion, In Harm...
...deal included the Felds, who gross $6,500,000 a year handling such headliners as Harry Belafonte and Andy Williams. As agents for the circus since 1956, they were credited with helping it survive at a time when TV was hurting the box office and its own costly small-town "big top" shows were hurting profits. Now well in the black, the circus is expected to end its current season next week with a record $8,500,000 in receipts...
...Little Intrigue." A farmer's son with a small-town (Marne, Mich.) background, Cole joined the company 37 years ago, when he signed on for an engineering training program. One of G.M.'s brightest tinkerers, Cole was marked as a comer in 1952 when he was asked to fire up the then dowdy Chevrolet division. In a bare 15 weeks, he developed a lighter, snappier engine that he coyly boasted had "a little intrigue." It had enough to spur a new burst of sales, and four years later Cole was head of the division...
Valley's appeal is hard to pillpoint: The book is dedicated to the author's poodle Josephine, but animal lovers will not find much else to cry over. The story is human--all about the hell of show biz and the perils of excessive mammary development. Anne Welles, a small-town girl and frigid Radcliffe graduate, escapes her destiny of "shrivelling into another New England old maid" by coming to The Big City. In New York she melts into the arms of a handsome English writer and becomes a TV commercial star a la Betty Furness...
Clyde Stout is a teen-ager who works in a small-town gas station, worships his Chevy and a hard-hearted local girl. One day he discovers a unique inner resource: he can hang by his hands for two, three, four minutes at a stretch. A local gambler begins to make book on him, but "Hanger" sees his talent only as a means for buying new and shiny presents for his two loves. In the end, he loses the girl, is cheated of his winnings, gets drafted, sells his car, and shrugs. In this gentle first novel, told with...