Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the planners felt the first big wallop of another challenge: through local stations in major viewing areas, a broadside of some 2,500 recently available pre-1949 Hollywood movies began hitting the TV screen as if it were a bull's-eye. In a blaze of ballyhoo, Manhattan's WCBS began unwrapping its $20 million package of 725 M-G-M films at the rate of two a day. With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even...
...year old Somerville youth, Robert Whelan, last night admitted setting the million dollar blaze at St. John's Church in North Cambridge Saturday...
...blaze, which occurred in Ramsey's molecular beam laboratory, started when a small welding generator overheated in "the normal course of operation." Ramsey has borrowed another generator, and expects no interruption in his work...
...ship in troops and Dinamaula is flown to exile in England. His escort on that melancholy trip is a young British war hero just starting out in the colonial service. As the flight begins, the two young men hate each other, but before they land at London in a blaze of press notoriety, there is something of friendship between the two. The young Briton confides that he is about to be married. "A white girl?" cracks Dinamaula. Both laugh, and in their laughter Author Monsarrat hears hope for the future...
...James Wellard (246 pp.; St. Martin's Press: $3). Hulking British Schoolmaster Thomas Ashe was a flop as a ladies' man, and knew it. His nose was bulbous, his mustache like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with a Galahad-pure flame of romance. Ashe...