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DIED. MACDONALD CAREY, 81, actor; in Beverly Hills, California. The casually masculine Carey was a dependable lead in Golden Age Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 50 films, including Alfred Hitchcock's small-town nail biter Shadow of a Doubt (1943), which featured Carey as a G-man on the trail of amiable psychopath Joseph Cotten. Carey is perhaps most beloved by viewers of daytime television, where for three decades he played the perpetually understanding Dr. Tom Horton on nbc's Days of Our Lives -- and provided the show's trademark voice-over: "Like sands through the hourglass...
...journalist; as CBS News Sunday Morning commentator; in New York City. The rumpled visage and rumbling voice of Charles Kuralt took the Sunday Morning helm in January 1979; he had already won acclaim for his "On the Road" segments on CBS's Evening News, in which he examined the small-town Americana that many journalists ignore. (He recapitulated many of the reports in a best-selling book in 1990.) As of May 1, Kuralt will be devoting his time to a book on his dozen most beloved locations in America. Said he: "I would like to explore some side roads...
...natural reaction of the outsider, the cosmopolitan city-dweller confronting small-town America--a situation in which the Times reporter and his colleages must also have found themselves...
...casts away even the pretence of detachment. He points to Paul Madore's candidacy for the state senate as evidence that "progress can move backward as well as forward," whatever that means. His final sentences ring with self-affirmation, declaring that the forces of right will finally triumph over small-town ignorance and evil: "In towns like Lewiston, history sometimes advances at its own uneven speed. But it advances nonetheless." This is not reporting. It is an exercise in contempt...
Finney's fable has passed the time test (40 years is forever in pop culture), having been filmed twice as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Don Siegel in 1956 and Philip Kaufman in 1978. The first movie, punctuating California's small-town sunniness with the thunder of deadpan mobocracy, became a cult classic. Both pictures met the horror-movie challenge: they kept moviegoers up all night, ashiver with apprehension...