A Best Seller Becomes Film From Cold Blood
A Kansas house where Herbert Clutter and his family were murdered in 1959 becomes a Columbia Pictures film location. Director Richard Brooks uses real places to give immediacy, with actors reacting to staged scenes and unknown performers filling Clutter family roles.
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Clutter
Truman Capote
Columbia Pictures
Richard Brooks
Nancy
John Forsythe
Alvin Dewey
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Forsythe
Paul Stewart
James Flavin
Hope
Irithkard Brooks
Brooks
Flavin
University of Kansas Drama Department
Brenda Currin
Nancy Clutter
Brenda
NEA
Dick Kleiner
Holcomb
Kan
Vietnam Convoi Gifts Bring Hope To Children
A rice farmer watches American convoys as children beg for rations and supplies. Soldiers toss out items like cigarettes and cookies, and a branded image of generosity contrasts with the farmer’s hard, solitary labor. One convoy shot his water buffalo, leaving a scarred animal and a stark accident in the field.
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Godau HA
Vietnam
U.S
Saigon
Corvey
Joe
Spring Church Hall Clean Up Suggested for Spring
After a busy winter social season churches are urged to extend Spring Clean Up Week to the church hall. Teams organize work on Saturdays with a social hour and lunch or dinner. Recommendations include cleaning ovens and appliances, checking refrigeration and electrical gear, hiring a heating technician annually, scrubbing and waxing doors, and washing dishes and pots.
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American Insurance Association
Amy
Fall colors and seas questions from a 1960s quiz
The reader asks about states joining the Union in 1861 1863 and 1964 Nevada. The answer explains fall colors come from water shortage stopping food production and chlorophyll loss. Another query asks what the seven seas means, noting it is a figurative term for all seas and oceans.
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Kansas
West Virginia
Nevada
Newspaper Enterprise Association
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