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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sleep Stopper. An ear alarm to keep truck drivers and night watchmen from dozing was put on sale by Wright Airborne Electronics, Kansas City, Mo. Called Driver-Larm, the device contains mercury that rolls about when the head nods, and closes a transistorized circuit sounding a buzz in the wearer's ear. Price...
Inspector Maigret (Lopert). One dark night a woman is stabbed to death in the Rue des Rosiers. Five minutes later the criminal calls the Paris police and challenges Inspector Maigret to catch him. Enter Maigret-sometimes known as "the French Hercule Poirot"-the hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature. Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin...
Boring Man. In a sense, A Hive of Bees is the story of a conversion, for Author Crompton records his emergence from the dark night of being a bee hater (he had been repeatedly stung). Although he adds little to the available scientific literature of the bees, he gives an exciting picture of what it must be for a man to have a hive and to know just what happens inside. The bees, says Crompton, are dedicated to Mom (who breeds incessantly), but they have solved certain Oedipal problems by permitting only one mother to exist within their waxen skyscrapers...
Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Henry V. To see or not to see Old Vic is a question easily answered: the company, now in MONTREAL, is superb...
...Combined Charities Drive is just $400 short of its goal, and "success is now within our reach," Co-chairman David Hurwitt '60 reported last night...