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...Tell Tale Heart (U.P.A.) is a seven-minute tour of a madman's mind. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's chilling short story, powerfully narrated in a voice just this side of frenzy by Actor James Mason, the film is one of the first attempts to use the animated cartoon to tell a psychological horror tale. Other cartoon shorts, such as Disney's Donald Duck, Metro's Tom & Jerry, and particularly U.P.A.'s own Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, have accustomed moviegoers to a skillful distortion of reality and a triumph of line over...
...formulas: the worth of the physical plant plus two or three times the net profit after taxes; the plant plus $10 to $20 for each subscriber; gross receipts plus 20% for good will. But even when they apply any or all of the formulas, brokers like Washington's Allan Kander admit that after they get the result, they "dive for a crystal ball." And the formulas cannot account for the huge increase in values represented by some of the sales that have taken place. In California's San Bernardino County, the publisher of a semiweekly, which he bought...
...best way to keep something safe, as Edgar Allan Poe pointed out in The Purloined Letter, is to put it where everyone can see it. Taking a leaf from Poe's book, Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. last week showed off the design of a "glass house" for its new midtown branch, planned so that everyone will be able to see everything...
...morning after a hurried breakfast with the Cabinet, the President flew off to Amarillo, Texas for a fast personal inspection of the parched plains and a conference with the governors of six drought-ridden states: Texas' Allan Shivers, Colorado's Dan Thornton, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Oklahoma's Johnston Murray, Kansas' Edward Arn, Arkansas' Francis Cherry...
...Brooklyn, Rookie Righthander Allan ("Red") Worthington of the New York Giants, just up from Minneapolis, shut out the Dodgers, 6-0, for his second shutout in two major-league starts. Worthington, incidentally, stopped Dodger home-run hitters who had hit at least one a game for 24 consecutive games...