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...Tide had appeared off the west coast of Florida last January (TIME, Feb. 10). Fishermen first noticed long, wavering streaks of reddish-amber smudging the blue Gulf waters. Floating in the streaks, bellies up, were thousands of dead fish...
Mottled Death. The amber streaks disappeared. Then, in the middle of July, the Red Tide reappeared off Gasparilla Island. Slowly, it worked northward, dissipating mysteriously, as mysteriously reforming. Last week off St. Petersburg, the Red Tide stretched in mottled patches over an area 60 miles long and 25 miles wide. As it spread, fish flopped crazily on the edges and died. Flies buzzed over their rotting carcasses on the beaches. Shore residents suffered headaches, burning throats and coughs...
...investment if costs went higher and box office stayed up. But if box office skidded much more, it might be hard to make a profit on expensive pictures from the can. 20th Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck, with $12 million already sunk in Forever Amber and Captain from Castile, was worried enough to postpone a third costume spectacle...
...Other Woman. In Seattle, Mrs. Pearl Kendrick, 54, asked for a divorce on grounds of cruelty and abandonment after 64-year-old husband Fred spent three days in bed reading Forever Amber...
Linda Darnell celebrated quitting time on Forever Amber by handing goodies around to her fellow workers-a diamond-&-sapphire ring to Director Otto Preminger, a gold wristwatch (with diamonds) to her wardrobe girl, a gold money clip (in the shape of a folding chair, with his name on it in diamonds) to her cameraman, and a round-trip ticket to Honolulu to her hairdresser. Now, said Miss Darnell, she had had enough work. In four years, she explained, she and her busy cameraman-husband, Peverell Marley, had spent only three days together, and it had nearly broken up their marriage...