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Hollywood first became aware of alien visitors in the '50s, when the cold war was at its height, flying saucers were flitting over suburban barbecues, and Americans were feeling, perhaps justifiably, a little paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...
...ability to become invisible at whim. Randall, who plans to revolutionize the scaring industry—think sadistic torture and a truly frightening “Scream Extractor”—is also consumed with jealousy for Sulley, the only one who stands between him and the Scarer of the Day title. Eventually Randall’s envy and Sulley’s good-natured clumsiness accidentally let a human child—gasp!—into the monster world, and by the time Sulley gets the chance to return her, he has grown fond...
DIED. ANDRE DEUTSCH, 82, influential Hungarian-born British publisher who rose from being a bird scarer in Shropshire to publishing Norman Mailer's best-selling The Naked and the Dead; in London...
...Rutgers wins were easy. Don Pike 9122) blasted Peter Keeler, 9-2. Gene O'Donnell (147) put on a dazzling exhibition of leg riding before pinning Brian Conley in 5:53. Ron Gelser (177) trounced newcomer John Ashby, 114, and Rutgers stars Bob Rader (191) and Ed Scarer (Hwt.) won decisions by 5-0 and 8-3 scores respectively...
...game was played according to soccer rules, and Princeton went down, 6 to 4. Tiger players mapped a strategy for the game. When they lined up for the play, they let out a blood-souring yell that the Confederates had used during the civil war. It was called a "scarer," and probably took more out of Princeton than Rutgers. Princeton players used up so much wind yelling that they hadn't enough left...