Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorites of the drive-in theaters, which have grown from 820 to more than 4,500 in the last ten years. The Ten Commandments, which cost $13.5 million, will have brought in more than $45 million by year's end. In the works: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Ben-Hur (cost: $14 million), Hecht-Hill-Lancaster's The Way West ($8,000,000), and 20th Century-Fox's The Alaskans, whose cost ($7,200,000) is about what the U.S. paid for Alaska...
Apparently Tech has an even stronger aggregation this year. In a recent article in the M.I.T. newspaper, their coach, Ben Martin, termed the team "probably the best we've ever...
Playwright Wincelberg may not write like a champion, but he obviously believes in handicapping himself like one. What keeps his melodramatic gamble from bankruptcy is the elemental tension of man against man, as it is reflected in the mirror-simple playing of Ben Piazza, as the American, and the emotionally prismatic portrayal of the Japanese by old (69) Silent Screen Star Sessue Hayakawa...
...best parts of the film, however, do not come under the sight gag category. Then, as now, parody was one of the movies' strongest sources of comedy, whether it was Will Rogers playing Robin Hood, or Ben Turpin as the latin lover. The best visual humor, only fleetingly dealt with here, was really the "dictionary of facial expressions" which could turn answering the telephone into a momentous occasion...
Major General Bernard Schriever, 48, who organized and built up the Air Force's Ballistic Missile Division, will get a third star and be named chief of the Air Research and Development Command, B.M.D.'s parent group. German-born Ben Schriever (TIME, cover. April 1, 1957) grew up in Texas, took an engineering degree at Texas A. & M., got his wings in 1933. He worked as a test pilot, studied at Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School, took time out to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University...