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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club to living room with movie-like ease, confirmed Producer-Director George Schaefer as a Hitchcockian master of the telltale closeup shot, and provided a triumphant finish for Hall of Fame's fifth year as a series of drama spectaculars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...third singles, Tim Gallwey turned in another fine performance as he out-hustled and outplayed Geoff Black. The long, three-set match lasted over two hours, and as Black tired near the finish, Gallwey got stronger, winning, 6-2, 8-10, 6-1. It was Black's first loss in ten matches this year...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Tennis Team Beats Tarheels, 8-1; Will Face Underdog Brown Today | 5/1/1958 | See Source »

...first year here, Riesman will teach only one half-course, a Spring term, upper-level Soc. Sci. entitled "Character and Culture in America." In the Fall, he plans to finish up research projects he is now working on at the University of Chicago...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Riesman May Be Affiliated With Quincy House Staff | 4/29/1958 | See Source »

Chase a Crooked Shadow (Warner), a shadowy whodunit with a crooked who-is-it finish, does its chasing along the austere magnificence of Spain's Mediterranean, rock-tempered coastline. Overlooking the soft seas, in a typical Spanish villa complete with a Beverly Hills bar inside an East Hampton beach house, a powder-pale beauty (Anne Baxter) writhes in poor-little-rich-girl loneliness. Her father committed suicide, his mining trust fell to dust, and her speed-happy brother apparently died in a car crash. But her real worries are all boxed up and neatly hidden away in the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

With its customary lack of grace, the United States Immigration Commission last week precipitated a seven-day international wonder show--the deportation and subsequent re-admission to the U.S. of William Heikkila, a Finish alien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Smallest Show on Earth | 4/26/1958 | See Source »

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