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Most bewildered of all was the rubber industry, which only recently had cut tire prices to below prewar levels (TIME, June 23). Cried William F. O'Neil, president of the General Tire & Rubber Co.: "It seems strange that the Department of Justice fires only verbal guns at industries putting price rises into effect but files criminal charges at one of the few industries cooperating wholeheartedly with the President's fight against inflation...
...born Regina Resnik was beginning to feel the strain. Said she: "The other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such performances...
...football game a certain pleasure may be derived from calling the plays beforehand, but in "The Homestretch," which happens to be about horse-racing, the average spectator will soon tire of matching wits with a plodding script-writer. Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde join and separate as mechanically as two participants in a Virginia reel, with the much-abused backdrop of horse races and a stately Marlyland homestead. But there is nothing positively unpleasant about the picture: blushing technicolor is made the most of, especially in the newsreel shots of the English coronation, and the photography of the races...
...some, the cream on the boom was curdling. Eversharp Inc., which turned in a dazzling $1,074,274 last year in its second quarter, was down to $550,575. The rubber industry also had begun to feel the pinch of overproduction (TIME, June 23). Example: General Tire & Rubber Co.'s six months' earnings of $2,650,912 were down from last year...
...also a new, bright-colored, strident biocomedy about the late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents her screen success; in the last scene, after a crippling fall, it is implied that she sacrifices her thin chances for life rather than stand him up on a date...