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...fell to their knees in prayer when a Catalina flying boat (called a "Canso" in Canada) flew over them, wagging its wings. The pilot directed them to the nearest lake, where he landed and set out to meet them. After twelve days, the biggest air search (40 planes, one blimp) in Canada's history was over. Said resourceful Sergeant Scalise, thinking of the regular plane he was to have taken: "I guess I took the wrong taxi...
Typical are the contortions of Lucky Strike cigarettes, which prance through a complex square dance. Rheingold beer cans and bottles troop by a reviewing stand, while overhead drones a beer-keg blimp. Sheffield, hawking a soft drink, takes an inexpensive way out: a paper orange with a metal base is scooted across the screen by means of a concealed magnet. Sanka coffee and other advertisers have adapted the novelties (popup techniques and hinged limbs) common in children's books...
Legmen had to face competition from their bosses. The Louisville Courier-Journal's Publisher Mark Ethridge doubled in brass as bureau chief for his nine-man news staff. Blimp-shaped Publisher Roy Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...
...lyrics by Cole Porter, dances designed by Gene Kelly and Robert Alton, and the direction of Miss Garland's husband, the gifted Vincente Minnelli (The Clock, etc.). The color-juicy oils and dark pastels, used with taste and intelligence-equals the best on movie record (Vanity Fair, Colonel Blimp, Henry V), and is the one unqualified triumph of the show. The composition and movement have Minnelli's Mediterranean sumptuousness. The tunes and lyrics are good grade-B Porter. Miss Garland's tense, ardent straightforwardness is sometimes very striking; and Gene Kelly does an arrestingly ambitious...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 26, copper-haired British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp, The Adventuress), who has thus far survived her M-G-Metamorphosis into a Hollywood star (The Hucksters), and Anthony Bartley, 28, ace Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Jane Bartley. Weight...