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...Edward Mulhare, elegant head of Femina cosmetics? Is it his roughneck rival at May Fortune cosmetics, Jack Kruschen? Is it Chemist Ray Walston, who plays his part so broadly that his dialogue seems to be dubbed? Or is it really the men who wrote and directed this bleached botch of a comedy drama...
...Hour Delay. Off to Portugal rushed Lord Walston, British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The Portuguese, who make no secret of their support for Smith, only shrugged, refusing to interrupt "normal commerce" in Mozambique. Back in London, the Wilson government requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council and began drafting a resolution that-if approved-would give U.N. sanction to the use of British force in stopping Rhodesia-bound...
...Haupt's anxious customers. The New York Produce Exchange halted all trading in cottonseed oil. Tino's major company. Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp., tumbled into bankruptcy. Wall Street's Williston & Beane was obliged by a capital shortage to merge into a stronger firm, Walston & Co. Tino's dazed creditors finally began peering into those Bayonne tanks. Instead of finding 1.8 billion lbs. of oil for which they held receipts, they found scarcely 100 million Ibs.-a shortage worth $130 million...
...orgy of self-parody. En route to Hollywood from Las Vegas, the swinger has to detour through the town of Climax, Nev. "The only way to go," he leers. In Climax his Dual-Ghia is sabotaged by a garage mechanic (Cliff Osmond) and a piano teacher (Ray Walston) who want to peddle their songs. Martin's only interest is broads ("If I skip one night, I wake up with such a headache"). Unwilling to peddle his own wife (Felicia Farr) along with his tunes, Walston drives her away and brings home a substitute, Kim Novak, who heads the navel...
Died. Vernon Carl Walston, 58, founder (in 1932) and president of Wall Street's Walston & Co., one of the nation's top ten stockbrokers; by his own hand (20-gauge shotgun); in Manhattan. A moody, drivingly ambitious onetime fruit vendor, Walston started the firm in San Francisco under the aegis of Barik of America Founder A. P. Giannini, moved to New York in 1958, where he built up to assets of $151 million, with 90 offices from Honolulu to Switzerland. His one and great pleasure was going on African safari, from which he returned to decorate his office...