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...England than in the U. S., Hitchcock pictures like The 39 Steps, Secret Agent are often too intricately built and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...
...fashioned walk-up start was used because Owner Riddle's War Admiral dislikes stall gates...
This neighborhood is the stamping ground of Alfred Cohen. Alfred is a small, blond, wiry eight-year-old boy who lives with his parents and an older brother and sister on the fifth floor of a walk-up apartment house. Directly across the street is Bronx House, where there is a dance every Wednesday night, where the dramatic club occasionally puts on shows like H.M.S. Pinafore, where the free art class of the Federal Art Project meets daily...
...Harvard there are two kinds of tutors. The first, who draw their salary from the University, are chiefly pipe-smoking, tweedy young faculty members who are supposed to give undergraduates leisurely official coaching for their general examinations. The second form a more interesting group. Housed in walk-up offices around Harvard Square, they are paid by panicky students to provide them with enough last-minute information to squeeze them through any kind of examination, a job usually accomplished in three tense, packed hours. About half the students feel called upon to patronize a tutoring bureau at some point in their...
Holy Land for three religions and battleground for 4.000 years, Palestine was last week ravaged by new violence. Combatants were Palestine's 770.000 Arabs and 375,000 Jews, with British High Commissioner Lieut. General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope (pronounced "walk-up") the harassed umpire...