Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they park up in town...
Trouble in town when the price drop...
...Ponder Heart (adapted from Eudora Welty's story by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov) puts all its slightly addled eggs in one basket-the basket of charm. Since they are really all Easter eggs to begin with, the thing works out very well. The whole Southern small-town tale of a lovable, eccentric ne'er-do-ill put on trial for murder has a light pastel daffiness about it, a way of making life look delightfully woozy through wrong-prescription rose-colored glasses...
...have been another eruption of rioting. One evening last week two Negro brothers beat up a university sophomore in the street because they wanted "to get even for the way they treated Miss Lucy." The police booked the brothers on a charge of attempted murder, whisked them out of town in the fear that there might be trouble. The trouble never came...
...show's producers, Louis G. Cowan Inc., brushed off the first criticism with the statement that Della Rocca was simply an amateur impresario who dabbles in low-cost opera in his home town of Baldwin, L.I. On the second point, though denying that the Delia Rocca-Prato appearance was planned, they conceded that The $64,000 Challenge will come on the air next month, replacing Sunday night's Appointment with Adventure. The gimmick: people who have written in saying they are just as good at opera as Della Rocca or at cooking as Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen...