Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound track, anyway). Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen-age boy (Tommy Kirk), who thereupon starts sprouting long white hair, soon finds himself living a dog's life. His father (Fred MacMurray) is of course horrified to hear him bark like a dog. The young pups who make up most of Producer Disney's audience will snap happily...
...three days after a successful operation to remove an intestinal block. With his passing, the U.S. lost its greatest architect-a lone, yeasty genius who devoted his life to working out his own unique vision of what architecture could be in a democratic society. "If this were an age like the Renaissance." said Architect Eero Saarinen. "Frank Lloyd Wright would have been honored as the Michelangelo of the 20th century...
...Church of England, desperately short of candidates for the clergy, is glad to get them, though their age is a negative factor. "It is true that senior officers have had experiences which must surely be beneficial to the church," said an Anglican official last week. "But, alas, they have only perhaps five,'ten, or at most 15 years of useful life to give." Instead of the usual three-or four-year course, the church educates them for parish service with an 18-month "pocket" course, minus the usual classical-language requirements...
...game of musical chairs," he says. "The jet age is going to move everybody up a notch. There's a place for every plane at a price, but it's not all going to happen overnight. The phasing in and out all along the line will take two to five years...
...very largely Ayer himself. He studied to be a physician at Harvard, gave it up after two years, bought an Ercoupe and began flying. He became an airplane broker to satisfy other flyers' needs for planes, soon switched to being a dealer (adding five years to his age to impress customers). He got his first big chance after World War II when the Air Force decided to bypass preliminary trainers and begin fledgling flyers in North American AT-6s (advanced trainers). When other countries followed the U.S., a shortage developed, since North American had stopped making the planes. Ayer...