Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years San Francisco's Hale Bros., one of the city's oldest and biggest department stores, did business in a six-story Market Street building. For only ten years the J. C. Penney Co. has operated one of its 1,600 stores half a block down Market Street towards the Bay. Last week Hale's and Penney's were switching stores. But most San Franciscans were mystified about the reasons...
...Jack Pepper substituting for Jerry Colonna) "resting" from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...
Guns for Gags. The North Africa-Sicily circuit was toughest of all. Bombed in Algiers, Bizerte, Palermo, Hope once almost dislocated his hip, once got jammed between two targets-an airport and an ammunition dump. In a Palermo hotel, he and Block were writing a script during a dive-bombing. Commented Block: "We did a show and ran for our lives." Cracked Hope: "I've never done anything else...
...ground) are formed-by the cooling of humid air, which condenses water vapor on particles of dust, pollen or soot in the air. They also know what a cloud or fog is made of-water droplets (or ice crystals) so small that an 1,800-cu. ft. block of dense fog contains only one-seventh of a glass of water. But many questions, such as what makes a cloud turn to rain, or how a rainbow is formed, are still subjects of vaporous debate...
...coach was besieged by photographers loaded down with helmets, shoulder pads, other props, begging her to pose for horseplay photos. The only picture they got was a conservative Pauline in sweater and pearls. They tackled her with such obvious questions as: How does a petticoat coach throw a body block? Coach Pauline disarmingly straight-armed them: an assistant (male) will demonstrate all body contact plays...