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...Columbia). 'Tis a dark and stormy night. Shouts and shots are heard. Four Yanks jump the wall of a Confederate stockade, grab a Rebel hostage and pile into the basket of an observation balloon. Whack! They cut loose. The balloon soars. "We made it! We made it!" The storm screams derision. Four days and 7,000 miles later, it hurls the fugitives into the sea and onto the beach of an island somewhere in the South Pacific...
...sick.' " Temperamentally unsuited to the night-in-night-out routine of Broadway. Gleason was bored with the show when it was still in Boston, but- bursting onstage saying "Get a load of all the bottle babies," and dancing as lightly as a weather balloon in the stratosphere-he won unreserved praise from such alto-brows as New Yorker Critic Kenneth Tynan and Sir Laurence Olivier. He also won the Antoinette Perry award as the season's outstanding actor in a musical...
...Rather touched" when a British stripling agreed to defend him in a school debate over which of four prominent men should be jettisoned to save a sinking balloon, Billionaire U.S. Oilman J. Paul Getty promptly supplied his paladin with a suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came...
...Doctor." More often it is physical, macabre and symbolic. Two men try to measure a corridor only to find that their measuring tapes are blank. A couple have a growing corpse in the next room, and its huge foot finally pops open the interconnecting door. Later, it becomes a balloon and floats away. A prancing prostitute wears a pony tail where a pony does, making her the first whorse in theatrical history. She is a relatively soothing vision compared with the whore seen through a keyhole who discards her clothes and then removes her cheeks, her eyes, and the rest...
...information has been made public, but besides estimating the power of the Russian blast at 30 megatons, the U.S. confirmed the fact that it took place at 12,000 ft. above the ground. The bomb was carried aloft by a rocket, perhaps, or, more likely, suspended from a captive balloon. However it was hoisted, the bomb's height was carefully chosen to minimize local fallout. If the fireball did not touch the ground before it stopped expanding, little or none of its radioactive material would mix with pulverized soil blown out of its massive crater...