Word: agrounder
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...Foods Corp. (JellO, Maxwell House, Yuban, Birds Eye). At last reports, Mrs. Post still held about 7% of the outstanding stock, worth $128 million. The Huttons also built Mar-A-Lago, a 115-room Spanish "cottage" in Palm Beach, and acquired a 350-ft. yacht, but their marriage ran aground. Marjorie in 1935 divorced Hutton on grounds of adultery...
...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." Cold war humor crackles on an island off New England when a Russian sub runs aground on a sand bar and its jittery crew, led by Broadway's Alan Arkin, inadvertently panic the populace in their hilarious efforts to get the tub launched again...
...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." A Soviet submarine bumps aground on a tight little island off the New England coast, causing a hilarious invasion panic that is at its funniest when Broadway's Alan Arkin dominates the action as an unstrung Russian sailor...
...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." As a Soviet sailor whose sub runs aground on an island off the New England coast, Broadway's Alan Arkin (Luv) makes light of cold war jitters in a rib-cracking feature film debut...
Fortunately the thing cannot be a blob of irritable radioactive ooze, for a moment later it knocks at the door and announces, with a hammer-and-sickly grin: "We're Norwheeguns." Actually the nervous Norsemen are petrified Soviet sailors whose sub has run aground on a sand bar. Their spokesman is Alan Arkin, a cabaret satirist (Second City) and Broadway clown (Luv), making a major movie debut that probably deserves an Oscar, a Lenin Peace Prize, and any other encouragements a wicked old world can offer...