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...looking in another direction. It found something too cheap. At 5? a bottle Coca-Cola was underpriced; it should, said the committee, be raised to 10? because small bottlers were being squeezed out of business. (Coca Cola Co. headquarters in Atlanta said it planned no price increase for the syrup it sells to bottlers, thus implied it was doing nothing to cause any retail increase...
...point system. Formerly, a housewife had to decide how to divide her points between canned fish and fruit, molasses, rice, jellies, mincemeat and other delicacies. "Thank heaven," gasped one housewife, "I don't have to toss up between a tin of salmon and a tin of syrup any more. What a relief...
...good. The trouble all stems from the point (early in the picture) when the pitiable plot is poured over the documentary background like a thick, opaque syrup over pancakes. This movie succeeds in throwing part of the background into obscurity, and nearly all of the remainder into a particularly sticky context. Montgomery Clift and Douglas each find girl friends in Berlin. Clift, who has sensitive sympathetic channels, is overcome by the signs of the stricken city and is drawn to his girl to the extent of wishing to take her into Holy Matrimony. She, however, is simply deluding...
...ride with salesmen on trucks delivering and selling Coca-Cola. They spend two weeks at Coca-Cola's central Production School in Atlanta, a minor university. At the end they are given a stiff three-hour exam (sample question: Describe briefly the process followed in cleaning and sterilizing syrup lines and syrup tanks...
...this, mingled with spots of dancing and pleasant Leonard Bernstein music, provides nice unorthodox eye & ear entertainment. Jean Arthur makes a brightly boyish Peter Pan, Boris Karloff an appealingly unctuous Captain Hook. At times the syrup gets pretty thick and the fantasy pretty thin; Peter. Pan is not Alice in Wonderland. It is much less dazzling as well as much less daring. But however little a masterpiece, the play is now safely a classic...