Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fritz Zwicky of CalTech announced his conclusion that these filaments are probably the rule in space, rather than the exception. With the 48-inch Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain he found hundreds of luminous "bridges" connecting widely separated galaxies. The length of one curved bridge, sharp as a lighted boulevard, is more than 72,000 light-years (430,000 trillion miles...
Playhouse on Broadway (Sun. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Marlene Dietrich in Sunset Boulevard...
After the Opera. A fair number of Americans in Paris eventually turn up at the hospital. Schoolteacher Anne Louise McMahon of Lewisburg, W. Va. was crossing the Boulevard des Capucines one night last month, after attending the opera, when a motorcyclist roared down the street and hit her; she suffered a broken left leg. "Right away," she says, "I thought of my little card." Her friends fished it out of her pocketbook and handed it to the gendarme who sent her, d'urgence, to the American Hospital. Card or no, the police probably would have sent her there anyway...
Finland braced itself this week for an invasion. Planes and ships, loaded to capacity, were already disembarking the advance guard of an expected 40,000 foreign visitors to the Olympic Games at Finland's capital. Helsinki's main boulevard, the Mannerheimintie, was lined with store windows displaying the five-colored Olympic rings. In the 10 local newspapers, news of the imminent games almost crowded out the G.O.P. convention in Chicago and the war in Korea. Some householders were demanding, and getting, sky-high prices for bed & board. Helsinki's restaurants hurriedly recruited an extra 2,500 helpers...
...first appearance since 1950's Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson seems to be giving a devastating imitation of herself in that picture, including lacquered profile, smoked glasses, fluttering eyelashes and grande dame mannerisms...