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...give the audience a lesson in psychiatry. Egg-shaped Director Alfred Hitchcock is up to his old game of chasing two frightened lovers through thousands of suspenseful feet of film to a slam-bang finish. This time he turns his formula and the police on Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck and hounds them expertly through a hotel lobby, a railway station, a train. But thanks to Ben Hecht's script, the real hue & cry is in the hero's mind. Miss Bergman, disguised in hornrimmed glasses, scrambles grimly after Hero Peck through the dark corridors of his paranoid...
Constantly hungry on a daily ration (for the whole group) of one peck of meal from the ship's stores, always cold from exposure, many of them developed scurvy and pneumonia. The Pilgrims, claims Author Willison, blandly ignored the ship's doctor, Giles Heale. For medical advice they depended solely on one of their own members, Deacon Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven...
...plot of land given by Henry Ford, to whose thrifty imagination the lot-from-a-little scheme had strong appeal.* As the project burgeoned, Ford continued to donate the geometrically progressing areas of land, and at last September's sowing personally broadcast a peck of the symbolic wheat...
Fresh from the lead in "Keys of the Kingdom," Gregory Peck appears as the logical, and similar, successor to Walter Pidgeon as Greer Garson's (Mary Rafferty) partner in marriage. Lionel Barry more is his usual explosive self as vindictive Pat Rafferty, while Donald crisp performs competently as a sympathetically presented steel magnate...
...rage; puff-sleeved, pompadoured pinups from the pen of Charles Dana Gibson blossomed on college study walls; bicycling scorchers menaced pedestrians; and rural free delivery was about to be established by law. The year was 1895. The same year, the late, great, tragic scholar and editor Harry Thurston Peck (Twenty Years of the Republic) began publishing in the Bookman the first U.S. best-seller lists, compiled on the basis of sales in the nation's 30 or 40 leading bookstores...