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...would1) win back the moviegoers lost to TV, and 2) make fans out of the occasional moviegoers. With pay-as-you-see, a whole family could see first-run pictures for only a dollar or so, v. the $2 to $4 it now costs (often plus baby sitter). Said Sam Goldwyn: "Paid television must come'." Movie theater owners naturally disagree, along with 20th Century-Fox's Spyros Skouras, who thinks that CinemaScope and other new projection systems can lure the public back to the movie box office...
...year ago last August, a slight, 18-year-old California ranch hand named Billy Rupp committed an appallingly brutal murder. He cornered a 15-year-old baby sitter named Ruby Ann Payne in the television room of his boss's Orange County home, slugged her with a hammer and then shot her twice with a .22 rifle. He was found cutting the dying girl's clothes off with a pair of scissors. He fled, was captured, tried, found sane, and sentenced to die this month in the gas chamber at San Quentin Penitentiary...
...Ford Foundation job, was highly popular. So he promised to follow in Case's voting footsteps: e.g., he promised wholehearted support of the Eisenhower foreign policy. Williams' Republican opponent was another Plainfield lawyer, George Hetfield. The Democratic nominee had once served as the Hetfields' baby sitter, later was a law clerk in Hetfield's office. But he quickly found a label for his old friend: "An Old Guard Republican...
Defenders of photography as a true art form retort that no work of art is possible without, to some extent, copying outside models, or without the intervention of some accident-the chance ray of light on a sitter, the stray bit of dialogue overheard in the street. The photographer uses his artistic imagination by choosing his subject, by lighting and posing it, by emphasizing some details and cutting out others. But photographers are forever haunted by the technical ease with which they can reproduce reality. Almost since photography began, they have been alternating between the "fever of reality" and cold...
...press conference this week, Mamie Eisenhower revealed that she does not go fishing with Ike. "Not me," the First Lady told the assembled newshens. "I'm the world's best sitter...