Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present program bans night parking of those vehicles in the area of the old House Squash Courts to lessen the noise near Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot. As a compensation, the new lot, parking in which will cost a nominal fee, is to be built...
...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 of odd rooms and twisting corridors. For 80 years it has witnessed a variety of human disasters, and now it is deserted by its owners; the caretaking couple refuse to stay beyond 6 in the evening, and the townspeople go surly when it is even mentioned...
...idyl ends. The girl's family retrieves her, and she scrawls on a window with a diamond: "You will forget Henriette." Though heartbroken, Casanova goes on to innumerable other adventures. In Venice, he seduces a 15-year-old convent girl, then begins a violent affair with the beautiful nun who is her French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.).* A live TV adaptation of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol, in which a seven-year-old English boy (Jacques Hirschler) faces the destruction of his private world when he discovers that his male baby sitter (Jack Hawkins) is having a clandestine affair with a well-endowed "niece." With Jessica Tandy...
...Conrad Cooper, chief industry negotiator, made the proposal at a hearing before President Eisenhower's fact-finding board in the 96-day-old strike...