Word: waterfront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covering the Mediterranean waterfront for the Hearst press, Elsa Maxwell tersely laid the scene of a Stavros Niarchos wingding-"The Creole, at anchor in the port of Villefranche, lay low in the water like a black panther of the sea"-pounded out the hard news with dispatch-"It was too funny for words. Mrs. Guinness took off her shoes. The Duchess did her conception of the calypso. Harold Vanderbilt begged me to dance with him. I refused only because, though I love Harold, I cannot dance"-but lost, control in her bread-and-butter blurb: "When I said good night...
Adapted from Michael Gazzo's hit play, the film is compassionately directed by Fred Zinnemann. As a courageous woman preferring the truth, no matter how grim, to uncertainty, no matter how disguised, Eva Marie has her best role since her Oscar-winning role in On the Waterfront. Addict Murray conquers with restraint-a happy departure from the screaming-meemie interpretation so often accorded the junky's part. To the end, Rain is true to its unflinching credo. The odds seem to be against the emancipation of an addict with one relapse already on his record. Rain abates with...
Covering the Waterfront. In Springfield, Mass., a woman rushed up to Edward P. Hannigan, a tourist-booth attendant, breathlessly asked for directions to all the swimming places within a ten-mile radius, explaining that she had left her children at a pond and couldn't remember which...
Married. Lee J. Cobb, 45, star of screen (On the Waterfront) and stage (Death of a Salesman) ; and Mary Hirsch, 27, brunette elementary schoolteacher; both for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...ambitions: a first-class marina to serve as a combination club, garage and general store for the nation's ever-increasing yachtsmen. Last week Panama City was about to start work on not one but two big marinas with dock space for 570 boats along its Gulf Coast waterfront and every convenience under the yachtsman's sun: water, ice, electricity and telephone service, gas and repair facilities, a dozen stores, barber and beauty shops, a restaurant, even a nightclub. Estimated cost: $3,500,000. Estimated gross revenue: $1,000,000 annually-to say nothing of the millions yachtsmen...