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...Julie Harris in A Wind from the South. CBS viewers will also get a new cartoon series made by UPA, the producers of Gerald McBoing-Boing and Mr. Magoo, the new Phil Silvers show, long film dramas by 20th Century-Fox, a weekly mystery show produced by suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock, and a new children's series, The Adventures of Robin Hood...
...Hitchcock, daughter of the paper's founder. Democratic U.S. Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock. He started out as a $25-a-week reporter (and got a $2.50 raise when he married the boss's daughter); he quickly switched to the classified-ad department when he found that "I was not so hot as a reporter." Doorly moved up on the business side, put the World-Herald solidly in the black (and on the Republican side) and made it one of the most profitable, strongly entrenched dailies in the country. In 1928 William Randolph Hearst took over the Omaha...
...leave the choice to you." So Grace gives Gary a piece of fried chicken. This is the sort of meal Director Alfred (Rear Window) Hitchcock cooked up for his troupe in the south of France last year. Its a little overdone, but it's still fried chicken- or maybe even just a lark. Those ingenious instants of terror for which Hitchcock is so well known are missing. But there remains the familiar Hitchcock pace and wit, the easy salability of such stars as Kelly and Grant, solid supporting performances by Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams, and lingering views...
...adds: "Grace doesn't throw everything at you in the first five seconds. Some girls give you everything they've got at once, and there it is-there is no more. But Grace is like a kaleidoscope: one twist, and you get a whole new facet." Under Hitchcock's expert direction, Grace bloomed in Rear Window. As a sleek young career girl, she distilled a tingling essence of what Hitchcock has called "sexual elegance." She was learning her trade. The way she walked, spoke and combed her hair had a sureness that gives moviegoers a comfortable feeling...
...room apartment in a huge, modern building in Manhattan (masonry by Kelly). where she lives alone with her poodle puppy Oliver. Her amusements range from photography (she develops her own negatives, sloshing around her bathroom in the dark) to word games. A favorite game is one devised by Alfred Hitchcock when he met Lizabeth Scott and got to wondering what would happen if other people dropped the first letter of their names: Rank Sinatra, Scar Hammerstein, Reer Garson. Orgie Raft, Ickey Rooney...