Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination of biography and backstage musical, the picture demonstrates conclusively that box-office silk can be made out of dog-eared formulas. It is loud, costly ($2½ million), overlong, occasionally trite, lushly sentimental and pretty as new brass. More important than anything else, it is uncommonly entertaining...
What with a home-town World Series for the first time in a quarter-century, New England's attention for the next week will be focussed on box scores and line totals. But, once the gloves are oiled for the last time and the goal posts go up in Fenway Park, Massachusetts can devote itself to the biennial autumnal pastime: Politics...
Each unit will have an ice-box and electric stove, and the Federal Public Housing Authority has provided bedroom furniture. Thus far, the University has been able to purchase living-room furniture for 100 units, but furniture for the remaining units is expected to be on hand by the time these units are ready for occupancy...
...patented his eradicator while working in the Navy's guided missile program. At war's end, he became a television engineer, in spare time worked on his invention in his midtown Manhattan apartment. His electronics gadget, a sound-operated relay, fits neatly into a six-inch-square box, which can be attached to any radio. It can also be used for other purposes. Conn turns his apartment lights on & off by giving a short, sharp whistle...
Universal, shrewdly delaying the picture's release, can now profit by Rex Harrison's first Hollywood job (Anna and the King of Siam), a solid box-office...