Word: poe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marks. Finally, in the East, someone mentioned the word that TV fears more than any other. Baltimore's Catholic Review, accusing NBC's adapters of "outdoing Mr. Poe himself" in televising The Fall of the House of Usher, warned: "When one considers that young children view television, it amounts to something that needs censorship...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, with Bela Lugosi...
Died. Dame Una Pope-Hennessey, 73, distinguished-British biographer (Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, 1934; Charles Dickens, 1945; Canon Charles Kingsley, 1949) who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1930 by King George V for her war work; in London...
...crashed on a farm below and burst into flames, killing twelve passengers and a crew of three-the first casualties on a scheduled U.S. airline since August 1948. The damaged fighter plane crashed seconds later. A farmhand saw its pilot-26-year-old Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Poe of Fairfax, Va.-jump out just before it hit, fall like a flipped stone, and die in a field with his chute unopened...
...zest, James recalled "the most appalling yet most admirable nightmare of my life," in which he had first been driven to "unutterable fear" by a "presence" and had then turned about and chased it down a long hallway. Throughout his life James was fascinated by the supernatural. He read Poe's horror tales, thought several of Hawthorne's fantasies "little masterpieces," and relished the late 19th Century pseudo-scientific stories about mesmerism or "animal magnetism." In his European travels, he spent many weekends at castles where family ghosts were indispensable furnishings...