Word: streets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Petard. In Lockport, N.Y., police got a complaint that Walnut Street was a haven for speeders, set up a radar check point, nabbed speeding Mrs. Jeanne E. Spaulding, the complainant...
...instinct are almost everywhere in evidence, and he has set a standard of excellence by which coming generations of screen spectacles can expect to be measured. His virtues have been agreeably rewarded. Friends report that his percentage-of-profits deal with M-G-M will put him on easy street for the rest of his life. But it is probable that MGM, which was in a shaky financial spot when the project was launched, will not have any trouble keeping up the payments. Ben-Hur has run up the biggest advance sale ($500,000) in film history, and the studio...
Stones in the Street. Last week, daily papers across the nation front-paged yet another art discovery, in Hollywood. Appropriately supercolossal, the story raised a mushroom cloud of dust and then rapidly evaporated. The announcement was made in the office of Hollywood's wide-screen Lawyer Jerry Giesler. There, Chicago Restorer Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky announced that an Italian-born TV repairman named Alfonso Folio, now of Pasadena, had been living for years with $10 million in pictures under...
...than a year ago, Folio and his sister, Mrs. Maria Hataburda, called in a respected art appraiser named Taylor Curtis, who told them that the pictures were unquestionably old (16th or 17th century) and in very bad condition. He also said they had no special merit. "Stones in the street," Curtis explained last week, "may be millions of years old, but you can't sell them as art." Undaunted, the Folio family consulted one Charles di Renzo, owner of an electrical-supply store in nearby Rosemead, who made a deal to act as the Folios' "agent." Di Renzo...
...Special Tonight Series (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A kiddie-land department store Santa believes he is the real Claus. Miracle on 34th Street, a rewrite of the 1947 movie, stars Ed Wynn, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy...