Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Block-Busting. Both Negroes and whites acted badly in the events that led up to the barrier between Collier Heights and Cascade Heights. Negro real estate brokers used blockbusting techniques to try to buy homes in the Peyton-Utoy subdivision of Cascade Heights. They falsely told white residents that their neighbors had put their homes up for sale and conspicuously drove Negro clients through the area on Sunday to frighten white owners. A white real estate man threatened to sell his home and some lots to Negroes in order to get a higher price from white buyers in the area...
July, it has been impossible to sell a house in Peyton-Utoy to a white buyer, and white owners were panicked by the threat to their property values...
...published in the U.S., the book proves itself more than a kind of private school Peyton Place. Benedictus' obviously partisan aim is to indict the Eton system for destroying a poor boy named Scarfe because, as a plebeian farmer's son brought to the school in a "democratic" experiment, he cannot conform to it socially, and for corrupting a rich boy named Phillips by giving him no socially acceptable choice except conformity...
...Affair was a novel by C. P. Snow about scientific hanky-panky at a mythical Cambridge college. Forget C. P. Snow. His Affair was admittedly only a mediocre book at best--standing in somewhat the same relation to The Masters as Return to Peyton Place does to its predecessor--but it was an honest, intelligent novel, and certainly...
Died. Jerry Wald, 49, chunky, eclectic moviemaker whose perpetual motion picturing made him one of Hollywood's most prolific producers (The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mildred Pierce, Peyton Place, From Here to Eternity); whose detractors claimed he was the prototype for the fast-rising heel in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run?, left a vice-presidency at Columbia Pictures in 1956 to form his own company, had as many as 24 films before the cameras at the same time, once remarking, "If I were a multimillionaire, I'd pick this business as a hobby...