Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eugene Pallette successfully blusters through the role of Joe Martin, grocery-store magnate and the girl's father, interested only in the grossest of profit and spectacle. He transports gloomy Glourie Castle to sunny Florida, outfitting it with radios in suits of armor and Venetian gondolas "to give that European look" to the moat--the ultimate in unintentional incongruity. Pallette makes the most of the only part which requires genuine interpretation...
...fact that the business derived from the University singlehandedly supports local merchants, it is time for the Cambridge police to provide more protection for the property of Harvard and its students. Some of the policemen who spend their time watching traffic in the Square and in the Varsity Liquor Store could easily be spared for this purpose. John A. Muss...
After the attackers had fled, Fawcett dragged the unconscious Bachelder to the ice house near the Harvard Provision Store on Mt. Auburn St. There they were picked up by a patrol car and rushed to the hospital...
...Liga (Dolores Gray; Decca). A tongue-in-cheek hillbilly ditty about a cigar-store Indian in love. A perky tune and some pleasingly professional singing...
Most collectors who spend a lifetime accumulating works of art prefer to see them set like jewels in the crown of a single, favored museum. Manhattan's Samuel H. Kress, 89-year-old dime-store tycoon, is one big collector who would rather spread his masterpieces around. In 1939 he gave 375 Renaissance paintings to Washington's National Gallery of Art (TIME, July 24, 1939). Since then, museums in Philadelphia, Tucson, Birmingham, Honolulu, Portland (Ore.). Seattle and Kansas City (Kans.) have been quietly handed some 200 masterpieces from the Kress treasure-trove, with no strings attached...