Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died 1940, arsenic; Marie Louise Davailland, a sister-in-law, died 1940, arsenic; Monsieur Rivet, died 1941, arsenic; Alice Bodin, a sister-in-law, died 1941, arsenic; Marie Louise Besnard, a mother-in-law, died 1941, arsenic; Pauline and Marie Lalleron, aged cousins, died 1945, arsenic. "UN AUTRE POUR MARIE!" proclaimed newspapers in big black headlines all over France as each body was reported...
...Bien . . . Adapted by Whodunit Editor Marcel Duhamel, Pas d'Orchidées pour Miss Blandish was as different from the old Grand Guignol classics as a Tommy gun is from a thumbscrew. Amid knifings and kneeings, kidnaping and murder, the meaty blonde Miss Blandish (Nicole Riche) spent most of two hours in panties and bra, successfully pursued by drooling Gangster Slim Grisson (Jean-Marc Tennberg). A moving touch for Grand Guignol fans: Old Ma Grisson, the boss of the gang, beats Miss Blandish into submission with a rubber hose so that Slim won't be annoyed...
...unsponsored shows on two radio networks, CBS and Mutual. In case any listener misses the point, Ford plans to follow its two-week radio barrage with a similar television drumfire. Besides its regular TV shows (the CBS Ford Theater and NBC Kay Kyser show), Ford commercials will pour from five sustaining shows on all four networks. Said Ford Vice President L. D. Crusoe of the unprecedented $500,000 radio & TV splurge: "It gives us more of an opportunity for flexibility and timing . . . as related to campaigns in other media-something to be desired in the competitive days ahead...
Ephemeral Sadness. This mood has been caught by viewers. Once when Kukla blew his nose on the curtain, 250 handkerchiefs arrived from fans within two days. Unable to answer more than a small fraction of the 8,000-odd letters that pour in each week, Tillstrom mails out a chatty newspaper, the Kuklapolitan Courier, some five times a year (current circulation...