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High Noon and The Moon Is Blue (at the V.F.W. Parkway Drive-In in West Roxbury). A pair of fine cinema classics with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in the first, William Holden and David Niven in the second...
...Woman's Place. In Houston, after ordering coffee from his waitress wife at the Do-Nut Hole drive-in, Paul Anderson threw it at her, smashed his truck against the building, broke all the restaurant's windows and much of its equipment with an iron pipe, told police that he didn't want his wife working there...
...most drive-in movie operators, a nearby military base means a box-office bonanza. But not to Delbert Kinsel, proprietor of the Skyborn Cruise-In at Fairborn, Ohio. Every time a jet from busy Wright-Patterson Air Force Base howled overhead, it drowned out the sound track and rattled the patrons' teeth. To no avail, Kinsel asked the base commander to keep his planes on the ground at night. Once, in desperation, he even sent season passes to all Wright-Patterson pilots, innocently assuming that they would rather see a movie than fly their assigned missions...
Last week Proprietor Kinsel and the U.S. Air Force finally signed a truce. The Air Force made a movie (hero: Delbert Kinsel) to be shown at his drive-in. From the screen he welcomes his patrons, reminds them that they are just across the road from one of the nation's most vital Air Force bases, and points out that each time a jet passes overhead it means that the U.S. Air Force is on guard. He also suggests that by tuning up their carside loudspeakers patrons can still hear the lovers' mumble above the military rumble...
Married. Aldous Leonard Huxley, 61, British-born short-story writer, essayist and novelist (Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan); and Laura Archera, 40, Italian concert violinist; he for the second time; in Yuma, Arizona's Drive-In Wedding Chapel...