Word: bel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NORMAN BEL GEDDES IS MORE GIFTED IN DESIGN THAN HE IS IN OBSERVATION. THERE IS A PUMP IN THE PUMP ROOM [TIME, DEC. 13], BUILT IN AT THE LAST MOMENT BY SAM MARX, ARCHITECT. IT IS AT THE ENTRANCE AND IS OVERSCALE. TRUE, IT PUMPS NO WATER, BUT WE ARE NOT PARTICULARLY KEEN ABOUT PROMOTING WATER IN THE PUMP ROOM...
...overwhelmed her so much she could hardly get through her first group of Handel and Vivaldi songs. "I can't sing when I am emotional," she said. But when she got her own emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could move her voice around as fast as a flute...
...Ambassador Hotel, Multi-Magnate J. Myer Schine (movie houses, hotels, real estate) thought he had a plush as well as a profitable property. It was profitable, all right: the net matched his investment of $1,600,000 in less than two years. But after Schine invited Designer Norman Bel Geddes to look the place over last summer, he changed his mind about the plushness...
High Pressure. These grandiose projects mean much to shmoo-shaped, grandiose Norman Bel Geddes. After two bad years, he is making a comeback...
...cattle behave convincingly. When they stampede, they look less like a spectacle than just a big nuisance. The bad men (Robert Preston, et al.) are also believable. Before Cowpoke Robert Mitchum gets mixed up in plot, he has a friendly shooting match with the rancher's daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes). She snipes at him as he tries to ford a stream. He retaliates by shooting the heel off her boot. At some point in this exchange of lead, love blossoms...