Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this suspenseful Romantic tale, all the supporting roles are expertly handled, especially the curious roster of people living in the Count's ancestral chateau: the Count's morphine-addicted mother (Bette Davis), who keeps to her bed and board (chess); his neurotic wife (Irene Worth); his young daughter (Annabel Bartlett) with a passion for the more morbid aspects of hagiolatry...
...former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition, spelling, mythology, music, poetry and chess. Tommy also reads books usually offered to 13-year-olds...
...pretty slick job as a straight-face comic, and he would have done a better job-along with Actor Douglas and Actress Reynolds-if Director George Marshall had not decided to play The Mating Game at a speed less suitable to a romantic comedy than to a board of chess...
Bill plans a career in research, probably in mathematics, physics or chemistry, has his choice of General Motors or National Merit Scholarship to pay his way next fall at Harvard. He does not date ("I'm not quite ready for that yet"), amuses himself with chess, classical records and books (most recent ones: Lord Jim, Of Human Bondage). His passion for mathematics, his favorite scholarly field, came to him early from his father, an engineer who works for the Bureau of Reclamation...
Rollert, who likes to play chess or golf in his spare time, is faced with a real puzzler in Buick. No one knows why the '59 Buick has done poorly. Automen guess that it is too radically styled, too low and hard to get into, has a cramped back seat. In any case, Rollert starts with one big advantage over Ragsdale. Ed Ragsdale took over when Buick was at its peak. Ed Rollert's Buick has hardly any place...