Word: schoolmarm
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...titles and credits comes on, only to be pecked from the screen by a squadron of crazed starlings. Having hinted at the ornithophobic horror to come, Director Alfred Hitchcock goes nattering on with an hour of some silly plot-boiling about a flirtatious society girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn schoolmarm (Suzanne Pleshette), an Oedipus wreck (Rod Taylor) and a pair of lovebirds. Hitchcock addicts will just be getting jittery for their first fix of gore when it suddenly becomes clear that the birds is coming: man's feathered friends set themselves to wipe out an entire village...
...Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland, 88, and stepmother of its current editor, ex-Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland -upped and registered for Journalism 4500 (Editing) at Alameda State College night school. To a standard questionnaire demanding whether she was interested in a career in journalism, the zippy ex-schoolmarm responded with already professional economy: "In a family...
...Fourth Ward School, where he was one of two Negroes in a class of 65. "They played Comin' Through the Rye," he remembers, "and the boys and girls had to pair off, and what was I to do?" Pair off like everyone else, it turned out, for Schoolmarm Emma Belle Sweet "just took the pupils as they came. This meant something to me, something very important." Last week, honored as Citizen of the Year at an educators' conclave and requested to bring along his most formative teacher, Bunche chose Miss Sweet, now a spry 82. Diplomatically, Miss Sweet...
Last week the harried flics finally struck back. Detectives found a cool million dollars worth of hot ice stashed away in the Antibes apartment of a young (25) schoolmarm named Hélène Chambovet, who explained delicately that "my friend Sacha told me to keep them for him." Sacha. arrested in a dawn raid on a Paris apartment, turned out to be Nicolai Gontscharow, 31, a handsome, suave, international cat man known on the Riviera as "le beau Sacha." Caught trying to sneak out a window (with a suitcase containing $10,000 in cash), Sacha claimed...
...Army's 1958 All-America halfback and currently a Rhodes scholar. His destination: the States and a month's-end marriage in West Point's Cadet Chapel to Judi Wright, 22, a University of Maryland alumna who followed him to England as a U.S. Air Force schoolmarm...