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...Susie," as her patients call her, moved to Ashland 23 years ago, and she has brought a boom to the town. Thousands of hopeful patients keep the cash registers ringing in motels, hotels, restaurants, drugstores and movie houses. Mrs. Jessel herself is the proprietor of 13 cabins where patients who need more than one treatment can put up for $35 a month. District doctors acknowledge that some patients may receive "psychological benefit"; beyond that they can only fume at the danger that ill people who need proper medical treatment may be persuaded, by a visit to Susie's, that...
...picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts of objects pop out at the audience from the screen: fists, a skeleton's hand, cancan dancers' legs, guns, pickaxes, spears, falling bodies. As Waxworks Proprietor Price says at one point: "I'm going to give the people what they want-sensation, horror, shock." If, as Hollywood fondly hopes, this is what moviegoers want, House of Wax is a howling success...
Charles Green is a New York appliance wholesaler with a talent for proxy fights. In his first fight in 1949, he won control of Minneapolis' & St. Paul's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. with the help of such people as Nightclub Proprietor Isadore Blumenfeld (alias Kid Cann), a wealthy Minneapolis hoodlum with a record of 30 arrests. Later, Green squabbled with his associates and sold out his stock in Minneapolis Transit at an estimated $100,000 profit. In 1951 Green went after the management of United Cigar-Whelan Stores because they had not been paying dividends, succeeded...
Taking part in a discussion of jazz, said Wilson, will be George Wein, proprietor of Storyville and Mahogany Hall, Boston jazz emporiums; Nat Hentoff, disk jockey on station WMEX, and writer for "Metronome" and "Downbeat," prominent jazz periodicals; and "Symphony Sid," disk jockey on station WCOP, and one of the formost proponents of modern jazz music...
Sales Resistance. In Baltimore, while Insurance Agent Manuel Hyman was trying to sell him a policy covering losses from holdups, Liquor Store Proprietor William Gross was held up by three gunmen, still couldn't decide whether to buy a policy...