Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went into hiding. But one Moslem truck driver, accelerating to get away, knocked down and killed a European woman. The mob dragged the driver out of his cab, beat him senseless. A soldier killed him with a long burst from his submachine gun. On the city's seafront boulevard the mob halted traffic, permitted European cars to pass, then spotted a red-capped Moslem atop a beer truck. Dragging him down, they battered him to death with beer bottles, were about to loot the truck when they discovered that the driver was French. Apologizing, they reloaded some beer cases...
...French Ford came down the boulevard bearing four Moslems: two men, a woman and a child. The young Europeans invited the woman and child out. Then they dragged out the two men, beat them to death, and threw the bodies over the sea wall to the rocks 40 feet below. Then they lifted the Ford and dropped it over the cliff after them. Police, stoically watching this performance, brushed aside a protest by foreign newsmen that they stop the slaughter, said: "We haven't received orders." A French paratroop major who tried to intervene was slapped in the face...
...should sleep in Napoleon Bonaparte's huge bronze and mahogany bed; then, perhaps because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim's even arranged to have a young British bull...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Sunset Boulevard, with Mary Astor...
From Wilshire Boulevard to Wall Street, stockholders in the world's biggest moviemaking company chose up sides in the most colossal management fight in Hollywood history. The prize: control of Loew's Inc., which encompasses Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, M-G-M Records, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, plus a $33 million funded debt. To head off the battle, Joseph Vogel, Loew's president of three weeks, flew from his Manhattan office to Hollywood, hustled through the first leg of a monthlong, no-martini inspection, promised to find out what was wrong...