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Betsy falls in love with Young, but she is disturbed by reminders of his dead wife, and even more by the misfortunes that hound him: his horse is mysteriously crippled, his dog killed, his rosebush poisoned, his favorite painting bleached and, finally, his house burned to a crisp. A kindly doctor warns Betsy that Young is a dangerous paranoiac with a yen for damaging his own property, and even Young urges her to stay away. But she sticks by him right to the psychiatricky finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 19, 1951 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Beaver-chinned Monty Woolley offered a thought on Hollywood: "The only place in the world where you can fall asleep under a rosebush and freeze to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Voice of Experience | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...Boston, a six-year-old boy tumbled off a porch into a rosebush, was rushed to a hospital. There Surgeon Richard H. Miller probed a hole in the boy's jaw, found the broken end of a rose cane, began to pull it. Out came a rush of blood. The surgeon quickly shoved the stick back. Then he cut open the boy's neck down to the collarbone, found that the cane had gone through the jugular vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rugged Boy | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...married his onetime personal pilot a fortnight ago (TIME, July 3), made marital news himself. The Tribune of Wisconsin Rapids. Wis., acting on a report from Newsweek that he was engaged to the town's WAC Captain Ruth Briggs (see cut), saw Captain Briggs' mother, Mrs. Franz Rosebush. Said she: "Yes, it's true, but I wasn't going to announce it until Ruth said so." Newsweek had also mentioned Mary Churchill and the widowed Duchess of Kent as possible fiancees. Walter Winchell leaped into the fray, reprinted an item from his column of March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 17, 1944 | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: In 1788 John Adams and his wife, Abigail, brought from England to their new home in Quincy, Mass, a Yorkish rosebush. Wife Abigail planted it behind the house, close to the library windows. That summer it bloomed, white & yellow. Last week Abigail Adams' Yorkish rosebush bloomed, white & yellow, for the 146th consecutive year. Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 25, 1934 | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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