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...work (Diary of a Country Priest; Mouchette) has the bite and permanence of a woodcut? It seems inconceivable that Bresson could have confected this pastel romance. Everything in it has been said before in cheap yellowbacked French novels. A boy, Jacques (Guillaume des Forets), spies a girl, Marthe (Isabel Weingarten), on the bank of the Seine. Marthe is in tears; her lover has abandoned her. She consoles herself with Jacques. Hélas, the affair is only a dream; in the end it is shattered by the little ironies of circumstance. During their chaste interlude, Jacques and Marthe bathetically wander...
Comeback on the Corner. The nationwide chains are built to the hilt and boxed in by several kinds of competition. They are often outwitted by smaller, local supermarket chains-such as Florida's Publix, Texas' J. Weingarten Inc., California's Lucky Stores-whose managers are more sensitive to neighborhood tastes and do not have to clear decisions with far-off headquarters. The chains are also being nicked by a new phenomenon, the discount food store, where housewives pick their packaged goods from open packing cases instead of neat shelves, and pay prices generally 6% below those...
...VICTORY was won by Negroes in Charlotte, N.C., second city in state to agree to serve whites and Negroes alike (first: Winston-Salem). In Knoxville, Tenn., three stores (Miller's, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Rich's) closed lunch counters permanently because of sit-ins. Texas' J. Weingarten, Inc., with 45 lunch counters in its supermarkets, is installing automatic equipment in some for integrated stand-up lunches...
...Houston, the newest Weingarten supermarket had a miniature corral well stocked with comic books to entertain moppets while their mothers shopped...
Martin K. King and Lennard B. Weingarten, entertainment; H. Lester Medlinsky and Carmel J. Cohen, publicity; Bruce D. Phillips, refreshments; and Dirck H. Post, staging committee...