Word: rose
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Died. Larry Parks, 60, journeyman film actor who became a celebrated casualty of McCarthy-era antiCommunism; of a heart attack; in Studio City, Calif. A B-movie player in the early 1940s, Parks' fortunes rose sharply after his brilliant performance as Singer Al Jolson in the 1946 hit The Jolson Story, which earned Columbia Pictures more than $8 million and brought him several more starring roles. But his career was shattered in 1951 when he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating Communist influence in Hollywood. Parks became the first of dozens of actors...
...Retail sales in March rose in all major categories except autos. Car sales, which have been skidding since the end of the rebate campaigns, dropped 29% below the year-ago level during the first ten days of April. Nonetheless, auto production is rising, and many furloughed workers have been recalled because of the industry's success in working down its inventory of unsold cars. Economists expect that the checks from the $8.1 billion tax rebate, which will begin to reach consumers within a few weeks, will put new strength into retail sales...
...ROSE'S STORY by TERENCE BRADY and CHARLOTTE BINGHAM...
...therefore, have been in a spirit of democracy as well as commerce that Producer John Hawkesworth authorized a series of pop paperback "autobiographies," which purport to reveal "the never-before-told secrets" of Hudson, the butler, Head Houseparlormaid Rose and the renegade Sarah. But good grief! As coopered up into print by a quartet of British writers, the earlier lives of the fascinating Bellamy servants have been drowned in tears and treacle...
...Rose's story is just as stark. Left motherless at twelve, she found herself successively at the mercy of a drunken father, the Southwold servants' hall, and a lecherous young master. Orphan Sarah's beginnings were livelier - and even more unpleasant. As a girl she is saved from impending rape in Whitechapel, but the man who saved her turned out to be a perverted missionary. By contrast, the weekly blend of world crisis and teapot tragedy at Eaton Place - where all the books end - seems calm indeed...