Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young business, financed by industry's millions, is making great strides in the art of weather forecasting. In Hartford, Travelers Insurance Co.'s Meteorologist Dr. Thomas F. Malone has been working on an "odds system" of reporting, which tells radio listeners the precise odds on climate changes ("rain today: 6 out of 10") in contrast to the usual vague predictions. And even a small enterpriser like Houston's John C. Freeman Jr., 37, president of two-year-old Gulf Consultants, can make an important contribution. Two months ago Freeman completed a TV-sized electronic tide-telling machine...
...Hatful of Rain (20th Century-Fox), the latest of Hollywood's dope operas, is much the best of the hopheaded lot. Its predecessors luridly flaunted syringes, outsize needles and puncture-mottled golden arms; their heroes inevitably kicked the habit for good in a rosy last-reel vision of a better tomorrow...
...Rain scraps this brand of opiated logic in favor of cold-turkey realism. The movie zeroes in on a nightmare that is real in tens of thousands of U.S. homes. This particular private hell is an apartment in a big Manhattan housing project. Don Murray is a jobless Korean veteran who, through some mischance of war, becomes addicted to morphine while under treatment in an Army hospital. Unaware that he is hooked, his pregnant wife (Eva Marie Saint) cannot fathom his jagged nerves, his remoteness, his all-night disappearances. Neither can his obtuse bartender father (Lloyd Nolan). But Murray...
...matter how grim, to uncertainty, no matter how disguised, Eva Marie has her best role since her Oscar-winning role in On the Waterfront. Addict Murray conquers with restraint-a happy departure from the screaming-meemie interpretation so often accorded the junky's part. To the end, Rain is true to its unflinching credo. The odds seem to be against the emancipation of an addict with one relapse already on his record. Rain abates with only the faintest hope of sunshine, hints that the long-range forecast is more rain...
...happy events occurred Monday night. In the acts of God category, arid Cambridge felt a few drops of rain; in the other instance, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players opened their sparkling production of The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria...