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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year U.A. plans to release 36 major features at a cost of $60 million. The fact that U.A. is betting so much money worries Krim-but not for long, because he thinks the pattern set by U.A. cannot miss. Says he: "We're in a growth industry...
Married. Lee Ann Meriwether, 22, brunette Miss America of 1955, drama student and TV actress; and Frank Aletter, 32, actor (Bells Are Ringing); in San Francisco...
NORTH FROM ROME, by Helen MacInnes (307 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), is a sentimental travelogue spiced with a warning to all impulsive tourists: mind your own business. Horning in on a 3 a.m. kidnaping on the Via Veneto makes a lovelorn Harvardman miss the boat to New York, involves him with assorted dope peddlers, spies, a Sicilian triggerman turned legitimate, an Italian aristocrat turned Communist, and a dark-eyed golden-skinned Roman girl who did a turn at Radcliffe. It all leaves him too jumpy to enjoy the landscape between Rome and Perugia, or even the pleasures of an assignation...
...Miss Jackson carries off all this in a cool manner: the irony manner gets out of hand. If the novel, a short one by all odds, seems at times on the long side, this is because she is carefully shading her characters and needs space to do so. The book doesn't seem to have any compelling or original themes that have not popped up in high-class escape writing before; but as a tightly and incisively constructed piece, worthy of a goodly bit of concentration, it rates very well indeed...
Defenseman John Baldwin, who suffered a shoulder separation in the last practice session, and Jerry Cotter, sidelined with a shoulder injury during the M.I.T. game Tuesday, are not making the trip. They will both miss the next few games. Dub Mallonee, the team's leading scorer, was in the infirmary this week with a strep throat, and may not play against Penn...