Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late to be a Halloween goblin, too early to be a Christmas Santa. Actor Charles Laughton was trapped 'tween seasons with enough facial forestry to make a sensation at a woodchoppers' ball. Actually, he had let himself go to seed for a role as King Lear at Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespearean theater. Leaving London on a brief trip to Paris, where presumably he would roam incognito. Laughton muffled: "I'll be glad to get a lawnmower on this...
...Adlai Stevenson. In the pleasantly chaotic informality of Stevenson's home, the President and Mrs. Touré escaped for the first time the stiffness of state visit protocol. Stevenson's lone maid bustled about getting food and drink ready while the Touré party inspected the Halloween jack-o'-lanterns which leered in through the windows from the dark and rain outside. (Stevenson had carved some of them himself at breakfast time.) The conversation wandered amiably from such subjects as Touré's speaking style to the relationship between George Sand and Chopin...
...another H.A. has its heehaws at just about all the going cliches of pseudo-sophisticated comedy-interfering in-laws, kindly bartenders, expense-account romances, television blurbs, know-it-all brats and the sort of progressive school that gives "two weeks off for Halloween." The dialogue is often gamy and the situations farce-fetched, but Director David Miller and his stars have made the most of some sharp wit-snapping...
...relief, he turned to the small oilcloth parcel in front of him, and after wiping his hands on his fresh bookbag, he pushed back the clock and bookrack and set to. Inside was a finely cut piece of pumpkin pie, a Halloween surprise from the family. Only through precision and restraint had the slices been made to last so long...
Trick or Treat. Near Port Huron, Mich., intending to scare off Halloween pumpkin thieves, a farmer erected in his pumpkin patch a sign reading, "Beware! There is one poison pumpkin in this patch," returned to the field to find a new legend, "Now there...