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...strands of their roots in Nature. They cannot operate naturally or seek the pronouncements of Nature, if they allow the city to regulate the temperature of their air, make night a flimsy daylight with electricity and fill them with synthetic food. The city is like a tottering superstructure of tin and sticks and kite paper where the most anyone can do in a life-time is add another Christmas-tree bauble onto one of its projections. Below this shaky construction, what it rests on, is the solidity of earth and the natural elements, where the poet, the gypsies...
...ranks of the movies' own guilds, fully half of the actors (plus Mickey Mouse, Rin-Tin-Tin and Lassie), cameramen and cutters earn their living...
...Weir, 81, last steelman still running a major steel company he founded, stepped down as chairman and chief executive of National Steel Corp. because of ill health. At 15 Weir started working for a Pittsburgh wire company for $3 a week, at 30 acquired a broken-down West Virginia tin-plate mill and built it into the nation's sixth largest steel company, with 1956 assets of $675 million and $664 million of sales. In his career Weir fought the Government, unions and fellow steelmakers; his is the only sizable steel company not organized by the United Steelworkers...
...story structure and scene timing, but rather less flair (in this film, at any rate) for the less intellectual aspects of the art-atmosphere and character. As for Gazzara. who made his Broadway reputation in End As a Man, A Hatful of Rain and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, this picture has already given him a Hollywood name as the most huggable heavy to come down the pike since Humphrey Bogart was young...
...than $90 million. In late 1953 he bought his way into U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp., an oldtime concern with $13 million in debts, shored up its tottering finances, became president in 1954. By trading stock in the Hoffman Corp., he acquired 23 profitable subsidiaries, manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans. But somewhere along the line, Hyman Marcus' magic touch began to fail. Day after day in recent months, U.S. Hoffman stock has been among the most heavily traded on the stock exchange, dropping from a high of 22 ⅛ a year ago to last week...