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...Knock the Communists...
...When Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, 43, answered the knock at the back door one morning last week and saw the young man with a two days' growth of beard, she was terrified. Her husband, James Hill, a hosiery-company executive, had left for work; her daughters Betsy and Susan were in school. In the big, ivy-covered house in a Philadelphia suburb, there were only Mrs. Hill, her eleven-year-old son Jimmy and four-year-old twins, Clyde and Robert. On the 8 a.m. newscast she had heard about the three "desperate and vicious" bank robbers who had escaped...
...executives from other firms and, although a graduate of Yale himself ('36), he put a stop to Grace's habit of hiring what he calls "rich men's sons from swanky colleges." Says Grace: "What we want are hungry, brainy young men who are eager to knock themselves...
...appears that the Hollywood producers have really slipped in offering the public (including teenagers) such a degenerate movie as Don't Bother to Knock [TIME, Aug 11]. Even from the producer's point of view, the movie can have a bad effect-it may make patrons think twice before hiring a babysitter while they go to the movies...
...movie had to buck Manhattan's hottest July on record, a barrage of bad reviews, the Democratic convention on radio & TV. and the summer box-office slump. But Don't Bother to Knock (20th Century-Fox), reported Variety, reaped a "sock $26,000" its first week, then kept on "holding in fine fashion...