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Like many another textile man who has looked like a genius during the boom, Joe Axelrod's real test will come with the return of cutthroat competition when the boom ends. He thinks his company is solid enough to withstand the shock. Last year, on gross sales of $37 million, net profits were some $5.5 million...
Proust Without Interruption. Not even his time in solitary left him entirely bitter, for he found "that it is far easier to withstand hunger when alone than in the company of others." And he there had the chance "to read all the works of Marcel Proust without interruption. . . . I also read eleven volumes of The Origins of Contemporary France, Dom Leclerq's History of the Revolution, and Rousseau's Confessions, The very length of these works prevents most free men from completing them; in one sense, therefore, I was freer than most." Nor was he forgotten...
Sleeves Up. Italian Communists, rolling up their sleeves after a Party Congress in Milan, called strikes of workers ranging from stevedores to tax collectors. Embattled Greece was marking time-but fearful that the Greek army, victorious at Konitsa, would be unable to withstand the next guerrilla assault...
Crime and Punishment (adapted from Dostoevsky's novel by Rodney Ackland; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) is perhaps too great a novel to be tampered with. But by the same token it would seem able to withstand a lot of tampering. Dostoevsky's great study of crime and punishment is also a tense story of crime and detection. Before its arrogant Nietzschean murderer Raskolnikov (John Gielgud) is guided toward confession and atonement by a humble Christian prostitute (Dolly Haas), he is played with, cat-&-mouse, by the Moscow police...
...that have been built close by Labor Party platforms in favoring the nationalization of basic industries. Most significance in a near platform less Conservative Party's election sweep lies in its effect on the Labor Party leaders, the election should stimulate them into building an economy strong enough to withstand the real test...