Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
...parents (his father was a poulterer) in London, 43 years ago. For a while he was a layout man for an advertising firm. In idle moments he jotted down elaborate titles for hypothetical films. He took them to British International Pictures, was immediately hired as title artist. At 26, Hitch was a director...
...plastic change coins are expected to eliminate three-quarters of the coupon handling now required. OPA hopes to have its tokens in consumers' hands by year's end, to coincide with the use of ration book No. 4. If the tokens work out well (one big hitch is how to make things tough for counterfeiters), book No. 4, with nothing but multiple-point stamps, might last for the duration...
...Forces Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally snoots...
...withholding tax developed a sudden and unexpected hitch. Many a little businessman now discovered that when his employes balked at smaller paychecks (TIME, July 26), he had to pay the tax himself or find new workers...