Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poughkeepsie Regatta (Sat. 7 p.m., NBC; 7:15 p.m., ABC). For NBC, Bill Stern, covering the annual eight-oared shell championship race from a blimp...
Different & Diffident. The language of The Industrial Charter was mostly the work of 42-year-old David McAdam Eccles, a smooth-mannered M.P. for Chippenham, an up-comer among "progressive" Conservatives. Like Grossman, Eccles is Oxford-bred. By this week some Laborites were calling him "Colonel Blimp's Dick Crossman." The Tory and Laborite pamphlets were more remarkable for their similarities than for their differences. They agreed, in the main, that Britain's economy should be run according to Government plan; both cried the need of one powerful Minister...
...Colonel Blimp nearly fainted in his bath: in Health Minister Aneurin Bevan's leftist Tribune had appeared a headline: "Nationalize the M.C.C." The M.C.C. is the Marylebone Cricket Club, blueblooded governing body of the national sport. Wrote poker-faced George Harrison in London's News of the World...
...foot above the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall. From the chair he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra through the first performance of his Symphony No. 2. During tranquil passages he waved his arms gently, as if they would waft him into the air like a weightless blimp. When the music was loud he slid from his chair and stood threateningly on tiptoe...
...makers of Stairway to Heaven-plumpish, rumpled Writer Emeric Pressburger and high-strung, contentious Director Michael ("Micky") Powell-can boast a freedom in their work that few other moviemakers in the world enjoy. Having collaborated on some of Britain's best films (Colonel Blimp, The Invaders) they are one of Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank's most free-reined independent producing units. Mr. Rank picks up their check without bothering too much about the details of what they have ordered...