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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox) is a 19th century whodunit that poses a perplexing riddle: Is the fetching, half-English, half-Italian widow Rachel (Olivia de Havilland) a murderess who killed her former husband? And is she now slowly doing away with her lover (Richard Burton) by slipping laburnum seeds into his tea? Or is Rachel only misunderstood-a gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...hospital of tomorrow should be a well-rounded health center from which preventive, diagnostic treatment, rehabilitative and home-care services radiate to the entire community." To make this vision an actuality the commission proposed that federal grants to help build hospitals (already being made under the Hill-Burton Act, which expires in 1955) should be enlarged and continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For the Nation's Health | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox), co-starring Newcomer Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, who is hopeful of a third best-actress Oscar (previous awards: 1946, 1949). The studio's dark horse: Stars and Stripes Forever, with Clifton Webb playing the late John Philip Sous'a (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Post Time | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Although the group did not formally adopt the Villers plan, it did agree to meet next Tuesday in order to consider it further and to frame proposals for stimulating student discussion of the issue. Burton Reif 1L, a member of the Peace Council and chairman of the meet- ing, said that the group would probably form some sort of an inter-organizational continuation committee to carry on its activities. These activities, he said, may include sponsoring a forum on the question and a University-wide referendum...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Student Groups to Form 'Cease-Fire Committee' | 12/10/1952 | See Source »

...Black Forest to which, according to one of its inhabitants, "nothing but evil ever came." This moldering manse is presided over by one-eyed Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally), with a mute Lon Chancy as his doorman and Boris Karloff acting as his house physician. When dashing Sir Richard Burton (Richard Greene) arrives at the black castle, he is i) attacked by a black leopard during a hunting party, 2) almost immersed in an alligator pit, 3) thrown into a subterranean torture chamber, 4) prepared for burial alive. The Black Castle tries hard to chill the moviegoer's spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1952 | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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