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After conscientiously mulling over 1957's output of movies, the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures-the weightiest U.S. cinematic arbiters-announced their "best" choices, found themselves agreeing more than usual. Both groups marked The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) as the year's finest U.S.-produced film, Bridge's Alec Guinness and David Lean as best actor and director. Other decisions were split. Best actress: Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Critics), Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (Board). Best foreign movie: Gervaise...
...summer season's most fetching musical offering proved last week to be also its weightiest serving of social significance. The program: the Nat "King" Cole Show, starring the tall, courtly $500,000-a-year troubadour who has played the world's plushiest nightspots and sold a staggering 50 million records. Last fall NBC gave 38-year-old Cole a 15-minute weekly spot, making him the first of U.S. show business' numerous and talented Negroes to star as host of his own TV network show. Launching a new weekly series (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), the network last...
From Norway and West Germany came suggestions that Hammarskjold be given the Nobel Peace Prize. The weightiest tribute of all came from Dwight Eisenhower, who last week told his press conference: "The man's abilities have not only been proven, but a physical stamina that is ... almost unique in the world has also been demonstrated by this man, who, night after night, has gone with one or two hours' sleep-working all day, and, I must say, working intelligently and devotedly...
...well as an Atlantic power had vital interests differing with those of its Anglo-French allies. Perhaps they were not surprised, but many were prompted into an awareness that their soundest hope for help in time of trouble would be a union of like, i.e., European, interests. The weightiest and most specific step toward integration, however, was taken by London. As perhaps the prelude to a historic shift away from her traditional aloofness from Europe. Britain last week began to talk emphatically about joining a West European free-trade area (see below...
...weightiest voice in the new speculation was that of House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin, who said: "I hope Mr. Eisenhower will run. I have every confidence that he will make the decision in favor of the country and the world if he feels he is able...