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...know, that little cherub- he had golden ringlets and big blue eyes-launched forth with a story that went on and on. It was about alligators and the jungle and all sorts of animals. Suddenly he said, 'I can't go on further; it's getting scarier and scarier.' And closing his eyes up tight, he said: 'I'm getting scared myself...
Tennessee Williams is now 50, still gets scared ("I am a definition of hysteria''), still tells stories that get scarier and scarier-and tells them so hypnotically that the public pays him over $200,000 a year not to stop. He is the nightmare merchant of Broadway, writer of Orpheus Descending (murder by blow torch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania, homosexuality), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality), Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration, syphilis), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, underwear fetishism, coprophagy...
Anticipation of recession was scarier than the realization. When the production cuts finally started, the nation's mood gradually turned from nail-biting to cool appraisal. The quick shift in sentiment was clear on Wall Street, which for a change accurately reflected business opinion through 1957. In January and February, when the first gloom-sayers gave tongue, stocks tumbled 44 points to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Later, when it became apparent that the initial pessimism was overdone, the market soared to within only a quarter of a point of the alltime 521.05 high reached...
...Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope, Scared Stiff must seem like very old stuff. It was called The Ghost Breakers in 1940, when Hope played the lead in a far funnier and scarier movie version of the old (1913) stage play...
...Times-Herald, many another U.S. newspaper was also in print with even scarier stories, but with no more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that they hardly bothered even to qualify their headlines. Cried the San Francisco Examiner: ATOM GIFT TO RUSS TOLD. The Columbus, Ohio Evening Dispatch blared...