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Producers Theatre, Inc. is a far cry from the usual one-shot partnership of Broadway show backers. It is a longterm, well-knit marriage of business acumen and theatrical talent. Its sparkplug is dynamic Real-Estate Tycoon Roger L. Stevens, who engineered the 1951 purchase of the Empire State Building and its sale last month...
...Without Honor. In Phoenix, Ariz., Charles Rockwell, chairman of the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee and sparkplug of a campaign against traffic violators and speeders, had his license revoked for eight driving violations, including two for speeding...
...sparkplug of Faulkner's mutiny is an illiterate French corporal, who is drawn in Christlike dimensions and has attracted to himself twelve disciples. The 13 roam the Allied front on leave, even, it is believed, cross no man's land to carry to the Germans the message of peace-on-earth. The corporal, the Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate...
Super Fuel. A new premium gasoline with eight separate additives is being brought out by Richfield Oil Corp., which claims its latest product will increase mileage, reduce gummy deposits, engine stalling and sparkplug failure...
Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman's wonderful brassy voice and personality sparkplug the film version of her Broadway musical hit (TIME, March...