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...Tomorrow, but it opens today, which brings tears sooner. Susan Hayward finds "Grief spurs the alcohol habit" but thankfully "Real help comes from 'Bert', an ex-alcoholic (Eddie Albert) who gives her a tortuous 'drying out.'" Look magazine loved it. At the Astor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

...critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated by Hattie into the WAC uniform. Another recent Carnegie creation: a modernized habit for a branch of the Carmelite nuns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Lady with Taste | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...were arrested, killed, or detained for days and nights by activists among their own employees. Literally hundreds of thousands committed suicide. At one time in Shanghai, the Bund on the Whangpoo River was roped off, the roofs of tall buildings were guarded to prevent suicides, and residents developed the habit of avoiding walking on the pavement near skyscrapers for fear that suicides might land on them from the rooftops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High Tide of Terror | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...mordant intonation." He got his first horn when he was 14, and he played in combos all over, even played at the Palace on a bill that included Eddie Cantor and George Jessel. In 1952 Boyce was working in a Chicago nightclub called Liberty Inn, and developed the habit of dropping into a nearby church in the early morning after work to listen to the cool music of the organ. Then he began to stay for Mass. He became a Roman Catholic, and two years later he went to the Servites and told his story to the director of vocations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Monastery Jam | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...Michael Balcon; I.F.E.) nearly puts its audience to sleep before shocking it awake with the chilling reminder that, in the midst of life, man is in death. Robert Donat is the grey, ineffectual vicar of a tiny parish in rural Yorkshire. His daily round is a dreary mixture of habit and frustrations. Carefully nurtured by his tweedy wife (Kay Walsh), pampered by his genteelly hoydenish daughter (Adrienne Corri), he has only one major problem: how to find enough money to pay for Adrienne's musical education in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 20, 1956 | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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