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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First pressings show the grapes to have a potential 14% alcohol content (1% to 2½% higher than normal) and low acidity. At the same time, the full ripening of the skins guarantees enough tannin to give the wine full color and long life. Though cautious growers say that 1959's "character" cannot be judged for twelve months, others proclaim loudly that the wine will have the velvet taste of a superlative year. Because of the health of the harvest, France's winemakers foresee substantially increased exports and possibly lower prices. The U.S., which annually takes...
...sued for $5,000,000 by M-G-M for refusing to appear in The Student Prince. His voice already showing tarnish, he allowed an earlier recording to be dubbed in when he sang on a 1954 CBS-TV show. He sought refuge in a sybaritic style of life, fought a battle against the overweight that ultimately led to his death...
...complains to the phone company. Rock suavely assures the investigator, a young woman, that "I've never had any complaints before," and proceeds to demonstrate the reason why-to her obvious satisfaction. He then rings up the decorator and accuses her of listening in on his love life because she has none of her own. But not long after that, Rock gets a look at the "sour old maid" he has been scolding. As the camera sneaks up behind the squirming heroine, the hero gasps: "So that's the other end of your party line!" He decides...
Climate of Horror. Unmarried at 32, Eleanor Vance has spent the past eleven years of her life caring for a sick mother whom she hated. Now Mama has died, Eleanor is living with a dull married sister, and her experience of life is a dreary vacuum. It is almost like liberation when Dr. Montague takes her on as one of three assistants to check psychic phenomena at a haunted house in a grubby small town. Author Jackson, a self-confessed dabbler in magic, sets her scene with professional care. The big old house is a crazily built warren...
Refuge from Life. Within a week Eleanor is thinking of the haunted house as a refuge from her hated life. She gradually gives up her fears, her fight for sanity, puts out welcoming arms to the madness that embraces her. She dances through the house like a dervish at night, comes close to what seems happy suicide. By this time Dr. Montague and the others insist on sending her home, and Eleanor's life ends in one of those terrible scenes of mental horror that Author Jackson knows so well how to contrive. The difficulty is that the story...