Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Races. Jowly President Remón was his tiny (pop. 800,000) country's No. 1 horse lover; only a state crisis could keep him from his Sunday afternoon in the presidential box at the finish line of Panama City's suburban Juan Franco race track. If the Remón stables had a winner, Chichi usually called for a mild celebration (his favorite drink: champagne on the rocks). So when his Valley Star copped the tenth race last week, the President and his guests stayed on in the emptying clubhouse...
While Hurricane Hazel buffeted Washington one day last fall, a man appeared on the roof of the U.S. Capitol, and struggled to the flagpole over the west entrance. Working in the wind and rain, he ran down the American flag, took a brand-new one from a box and ran it up the staff. Then he quickly lowered it, raised the old flag and, clutching the new one, crept back downstairs. All year long, U.S. Capitol policemen go through this same ritual. They are fulfilling requests from Congressmen for flags that have "flown over the Capitol." Police Private...
...usual, the choices generally did not agree with the top box-office grossers for the year. The five big money pictures so far (in the U.S. and Canada only), reported by Variety: 1) Paramount's White Christmas, which, though it has been playing less than three months, has already grossed $12 million; Columbia's The Caine Mutiny, $8,700,000; Universal's The Glenn Miller Story, $7,000,000; Fox's The Egyptian, $6,000,000; Paramount's Rear Window...
Motion Picture Herald, which polls the men who should know-the exhibitors-found John Wayne the No. 1 box-office draw, although Wayne made only two films eligible in 1954: Hondo and The High and the Mighty. Runners-up: Martin and Lewis, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Marilyn Monroe. Alan Ladd, William Holden (first time to figure in the first ten), Bing Crosby. Jane Wyman (first time), Marlon Brando (first time...
Then all at once 1) a flood hits the plantation. 2) the bandits attack the mine, 3) a box of dynamite blows them all to guacamole, 4) an avalanche deflects the course of the river, 5) a tropical storm breaks, and 6) a rainbow shines through it, arching over 7) the Final Clinch...