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Your May 23 story on Brazil is topnotch! I was interested in the explanation of Brazil's famous "no color line" as a result of the social heredity of Moorish domination of the Portuguese...
...glamor with small, telling touches of reality, have missed out on both. The failure is particularly glaring because a number of highly skilled hands were involved in it. The plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film was put together by one of the best directors on either side of the Atlantic, David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations...
Almost any topnotch businessman could have qualified for the big title and the $65,000-a-year salary just by getting along with The Boss. But among candidates for the presidency of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. that one qualification was rare indeed. After cross-grained old Sewell Avery goaded Wilbur Norton into throwing up the job last spring, no one rushed to apply for it. Outsiders shunned the opening with a firm: "Not me! Not there!" Most of the No. 2 men in the company quit faster than they could be replaced, until all eight vice-presidencies...
...screen theater television. Theater TV may also become a major movie sideline. Last week 20th Century-Fox was reported nurturing a plan to set up big TV screens in 15 or 20 of its West Coast theaters by year's end. Through closed circuits, Fox would feed topnotch "live" shows to thea ter screens and outbid TV networks and advertisers for high-priced talent...
...last item is perhaps the most sinister. It implies that coach Marchie Schwartz will have 55 men who either are already on the varsity game list or are topnotch freshmen...