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...coffin rises. Inside are five words: THIS IS RESERVED FOR YOU. The sound track takes over. "Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to see a motion picture that may kill you. We guarantee free burial service to anyone who dies of fright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stiff Competitors | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...most attractive promotion bait offered this summer is a $1,000 life insurance policy, written by Lloyd's of London to cover "the death by fright of any member of the audience." The movie: Macabre, a pallor game played by a mad M.D. When Macabre's Producer William Castle first tried to insure every human being on earth, Lloyd's was chilly. Lloyd's dickered with Castle over an estimate of the number of deaths that would occur, finally settled for an actuarially comfortable eight, made the premium $15,000. No bereaved heir has yet made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stiff Competitors | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...seen assassins shoot down his grandfather, King Abdullah, before Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock; legend has it that the boy stood erect and defiant as the King's bodyguard fell to the ground in fright. As a lad of 16, he had seen his mad father, Crown Prince Talal, removed from the throne. At 18, slight, down-mustached Hussein became King of the impoverished desert kingdom of Jordan. Most of his country's people-the 900,000 Palestinians incorporated into his kingdom after Israel became a nation-plainly felt no loyalty to King or kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Brave Young King | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...monstrous Lady Bountiful, Lynn Fontanne plays with a wonderfully enameled hardness, a high-styled fiendish poise. Playing Schill in a quite different style, Alfred Lunt gives a vividly realistic picture of human fright faced with the inhumanly frightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

Commenting on his rejection, Claussen, who is vice-president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, said, "they must live in a continual state of fright to be afraid of one applicant in a club of thirty members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eisenhower Club Rejects Claussen In Second Trial | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

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