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...bring back Joseph Welch, Leonard Bernstein, and "some bright new faces." Crooner Eddie Fisher will team up with George Gobel in a new variety series, Giselle MacKenzie gets her own show, Jill Corey takes the spotlight on Your Hit Parade. In addition to his Tegular CBS chores, Alfred Hitchcock will produce and direct ten films for NBC's Suspicion; Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis return with six specials each; and Dean Martin plans to alternate with Polly Bergen. General Motors celebrates its 50th anniversary with Jubilee of American Music, and Standard Oil will hire Cyril Ritchard, Jimmy Durante, June...
Concluded Worthington: "The third sound came like a creaking noise, like some great door slowly and ominously swinging open. The kind of sound effect Alfred Hitchcock makes...
...Iron Curtain, was put in touch with Soble by Elizabeth Zubilin, wife of a functionary in the Soviet embassy during World War II. In 1947 Morros went to the FBI and became a U.S. counterspy. Jane and George Zlatovski were helpful spies for the Soble-Morros combine. In Hitchcock-trimmed meetings both in the U.S. and a dozen European cities-including Moscow-the Zlatovskis turned over a file-load of valuable information that eventually dropped into Russian hands, said the indictment. Using OSS information, Jane (code name: "Slang") wrote an incisive report on Indonesia as well as dossiers...
Often, of course, Hitchcock realizes this. Occasional implicit grotesqueness along with the horrible images, the examples of practicable black magic, and the demonstrations that crime does pay after all clearly take advantage of what books can do and screens cannot...
...whole, Hitchcock's casketful of stories is a routine job. Many tales are stale: a few are fine. One doubts whether he actually submitted them all for TV shows, but he obviously likes to collect odd and uncomfortable stories. Whether he should be encouraged to publish them is debatable; collections should not always be made public. One of the charming characters in his book, for instance, collects throats...