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POLAND'S POZNAN FAIR will attract splashiest U.S. show yet made behind Iron Curtain. Heartened because 1,135,000 people visited U.S. display last year, Commerce Department will erect $175,000 glass-and-aluminum permanent building, plus a TV studio and four smaller buildings. For 1958 fair, U.S. will spend...
Hotelkeepers all over the Caribbean last week raised their rates to winter levels, officially opening what promised to be the rum-punch belt's splashiest sin-and-sun season yet. Wide-open Havana, nonchalantly bent on pleasure despite a running revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, offered visitors the biggest hotel built there since 1930. Jamaica also welcomed tourists to a new hotel, the island's biggest...
...amassed the biggest schedule of one-shot shows in its history: 25 specials for the nighttime slate, at least 48 news and documentary specials for Sunday afternoons. The CBS schedule is so tight that the four Frank Capra-produced Bell Telephone science shows had to move over to NBC. Splashiest of all will probably be The Du Pont Show of the Month, offering ten 90-minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical...
France will draw some 550,000 Americans, who will spend about $170 million. Many of them will be surprised at the high French prices, which are up 10% over last year. For nightclubbers, the best bargain is Paris' Lido, Europe's splashiest nightclub-$6 for a three-course dinner, a half-bottle of champagne and a nude (from the navel up) chorus line. Every small town is making a bid for some of the tourist cash, and theatrical and musical festivals will ring all over France through mid-September. Among them: the Chamber Music Festival at Prades (July...
...will loose a torrent of color spectaculars in hopes of tottering CBS's rating preeminence. Splashiest of all will probably be onetime Vaudeville Hoofer Walter Winchell as host of his own variety show early next month. Paul Douglas will join Mary Martin, biggest audience-puller on TV. in Born Yesterday on Hallmark Hall of Fame, which will also repro cruce Shaw's Man and Superman with