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...sponsored television broadcasts, says Sahl, put him into a peculiar predicament. "May I mention the United States?" the President asks his toothpaste sponsor. "No. That's a plug." Idly reflecting that Kennedy is as handsome as a movie star, Sahl pictures him cast as the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, "pursued across Mount Rushmore by the head of the House Rules Committee. There'd be good shots of Kennedy climbing on his own face...
...Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele Astaire Douglass, Elizabeth Arden Graham, Mrs. George Baker, Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock...
...parents will return from the movies, he replies: "Not till the witching hour methinks, or worse. For no more will th' embattled hombres make their peace in the mesa'd West, their smoking armaments put by, than Cary Grant will post him through such feats as Hitchcock doth concoct." Pretty chilling, but De Vries really sets in a little later when a maiden solemnly informs her swain that "It would be terrible to be regarded as a child-bearing machine...
...president and controlling stockholder of Alleghany Corp., the vast holding company whose assets include control of the New York Central and the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services, the biggest U.S. mutual fund group. Despite this considerable power, quiet courtly Allan Kirby habitually wears the look of a doleful Alfred Hitchcock-and last week he had his reasons. Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison and his two sons, once Kirby's partners in Alleghany (TIME, Sept. 19), are trying to take Alleghany away from him in what was shaping up as the biggest proxy fight in many a year...
Miss Bardot's attempts to find the real murderer produce reactions ranging from catcalling laughter to a commendable degree of tension. Where the heroine of an Alfred Hitchcock movie would creep inquisitively into a fruit cellar, Miss Bardot pursues her suspicions into an attic, and although the only person she finds there is a police officer also investigating the crime, the classic suspense formula nevertheless brings forth some tight moments...