Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After buying a new place, Heidt hunts down the most popular managers, bartenders, waiters, cooks, etc. in the neighborhood and hires them. Then he personally rings doorbells in the district and asks people if they have tried his new place...
Home Sweet Homicide (20th Century-Fox), based on a Craig Rice whodunit, is the carefree story of a mystery novelist-widow (Lynn Bari) whose three crime-conscious children happily solve a neighborhood murder...
...Neighborhood audiences who get a few good laughs of recognition out of Home Sweet Homicide's appallingly familiar children may not mind if the film's mystery and its romance also stay in an all-too-familiar groove...
With the help of its more professional members, ICCASP has also learned to avoid some of the minor blunders of politicking. Explained a Hollywood member: "Ingrid Bergman would never be sent off to a small neighborhood meeting because it would cheapen her glamor value. Groucho Marx wouldn't attempt to talk to a ladies' society, but would leave it to Sterling Hayden or John Garfield...
...Neighborhood Talk. Wrote Baptist Parson J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., long known as the "wild man of the Southern Baptist Church": "Since you have come out and endorsed Communistic Russia, the worst bunch of bandits in history, you should resign instantly . . . the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention...