Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reclining in his rocking chair, he looked like a middle-aged man at the end of a long day, but when he opened his mouth, he was the master entertainer. Bing Crosby's topnotch ABC special last week swayed along with rocking-chair ease; its spare (but expensive) sets and casual tone made the usual frenetic TV variety shows look sick by comparison. With Crooner Dean Martin, Gospel Shouter Mahalia
...this time the picture has stumbled along for i^ hours, and the moment has come for it to fall flat on its face. Griffith renounces adultery, plans to marry the girl from back home, helps his ship subdue a German sub, and exposes a crooked executive officer, all at flank speed. Director Norman Taurog, whose recent efforts have been largely limited to Martin and Lewis comedies, heaves enough whisky-pourings to float the Coast Guard for a week, but viewers may find some of his other humorous inventions less familiar. He seems to think it is laugh-provoking to throw...
Harry Black and the Tiger (20th Century-Fox). If tigers had actors' agents, this movie might have kicked up a squabble along producers' row. The tiger so clearly deserves top billing. While all the two-legged characters wade around uncertainly in one another's shallow psyches, the purposeful tabby chews up half the population of India (although only two on-camera) and chops Actor Stewart Granger to bits. Prowling through the hill country of southern India, Cameraman Harry Gillan has brought back some startling footage on a real cool...
...only do they wish to defend you against dangers lurking along the way; they are also active at your side with a word of encouragement to your souls as you strive to ascend higher and higher to closeness to God through Christ...
...England autumn crackled crisply underfoot as hunters in Maine and Vermont took to the woods and meadows in search of rabbit and pheasant. In Wisconsin and Oregon the hunt was on for grouse and quail. In Virginia and Maryland, packs of foxhounds were ready for the classic chase. Along the great flyways of the nation, ducks headed south. From California to the Carolinas, observers reported ground-game population on the increase as hunters and dogs prepared for one of the best seasons ever for the U.S.'s third (after fishing and bowling) most popular participation sport...