Word: bending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy enough hydrogen clouds, however, manage to bend the magnetic lines of force into a gigantic funnel. Then sun particles pour through into the earth's atmosphere. Oxygen atoms near the earth's surface begin to glow and sparkle when struck by the speeding hydrogen. All through the "magnetic funnel" the luminous oxygen shimmers and shines in crimson and yellow and green streamers, which are the waving rainbow of the northern lights...
Died. Hugh ("Woo Woo") Herbert, 66, veteran slapstick cinemactor (The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend), onetime honorary mayor of Studio City, Calif.; of a heart attack; in North Hollywood, Calif...
...Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...
...potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River as a molasses-slow deckhand on a river boat...
...Bend of the River at the RKO Keith is another good Jimmy Stewart western. In Technicolor...