Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Mexico City, blue and cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
Haile Selassie, 56, bearded Lion of Judah and Emperor of Ethiopia, laid in a stylish stock against the unpredictable future. Flown to him from Manhattan on his order were five business suits (a grey flannel, two striped grey worsteds, a navy blue, a grey worsted with small plaid), two topcoats, three dinner suits, three sport jackets (two beige Kashmir, one of herringbone weave), and five pairs of slacks...
...winner was cocksure little (135-Ib.) Mauri Rose, at the wheel of a Blue Crown Special, the same car (four cylinders, front-wheel drive, no superchargers) that he won with last year. After averaging a record 119.8 m.p.h., Rose took two laps for insurance. Then he took a couple more. He had his speech all ready for the newsreel cameras when Hollywood's beauteous Barbara Britton tried to kiss him in the winner's cage: "There's a lady I want to kiss first ... I hope you'll understand. We're going to be married...
Shoving off from the Newell float (above) before the recent Eastern Sprint Regatta are the eight men who will probably row against the Blue over the four-mile course at New London on June...
Shot in glorious black and white, "Fort Apache" introduces John Agar as a brash young 2nd Lt with a lantern jaw and a gay twinkle in his blue, blue eyes. He provides the love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...