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...Kingmakers. Perhaps nowhere in the world do banks hold more sway over the business community. German banks are at once commercial lenders, stockbrokers and underwriters-or, as one top German banker explained, "a combination of Chase Manhattan, First Boston and Merrill Lynch." Most German stockholders, untrained in the vagaries of "corporate democracy," readily sign proxies for banks to vote their interests at annual meetings...
...DOWN TOWN. The time is long gone when the Flatiron Building was an architectural astonishment, and when the Woolworth Building held sway as the tallest in the world, but even the old soil that was the birthplace of the skyscraper has sprouted new towers. The area received a massive booster shot this year with the completion of David Rockefeller's 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Building, packed with modern art and surrounded by a plaza roughly the size of Venice's Piazza San Marco. The dancing glass wall of No. 2 Broadway brings a note of new brightness...
...uncovers new evidence of the pariah's probable innocence and rallies Eliot and a few conscience-nagged colleagues with a cry of "justice for the enemy." As he rounds up the necessary votes for retrial, Eliot encounters the various motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, selflessly decent-that sway all would-be judges of men. How all-too-human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed on suspicion of senility. The retrial exonerates Howard, but the terms of reinstatement outrage...
Earth was a cylindar, like Edison's first records incised and not the blue plate special of today, air was also mist and dew and fog, immersed chords decor not unlike wallpaper, elemental, held its sway...
Meanwhile, 20th Century-Fox's Field Marshal Zanuck was busy on the home front. Irritated by the rising sway of the stockbrokers who purged Fox President Spyros Skouras, Zanuck set himself up as a one-man Pentagon and declared war. Calling for a special meeting of the Fox board within 30 days, he said he would like to double the size of the board and hence dilute the brokers' power. If he was given enough power, he hinted, he might consent to take over as president. Zanuck was the studio's production boss until 1956, left...