Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Secretary James H. Douglas ventured that the Air Force's Atlas ICBM would be operational in two years, but he cast doubt on the value of his prediction by showing painful gaps in his information. Pointing to Defense Department claims that the Atlas program has been stepped up, Counsel Weisl asked Douglas whether the manufacturer, Convair, had been told to push ahead faster. Replied Douglas: "I believe so ... I cannot answer personally-of my own knowledge." (Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon...
...once urbane and eerie, Deadly Game achieved some of the quality of a Lord Dunsany shocker, benefited from skilled construction as well as from Actor Merrill's supple playing at the head of a sure cast, including Boris Karloff and Harry Townes. Closing scene: Merrill's widow, no angel either, drops in unexpectedly, agrees to stay for dinner and perhaps a parlor game afterward to take her mind off her bereavement...
...colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ. My corrupt nature is empty of Grace, bent unto sin, and onely unto sin, and that continually." It ended with the threat and promise that "the Righteous shall go into life eternall, and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels...
...Wellesley cast will perform in Agassiz Theatre January 9, 10, and 11, with tickets priced at 90 cents. They will go on sale immediately after Christmas vacation...
...WAPSHOT CHRONICLE, by John Cheever. The most ruefully amusing novel of the year, a story about an old New England family on the skids, with a cast of pathetically brave left-behinds, hilarious eccentrics and nice youngsters who lack the gumption of their elders...