Word: channelizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Way Home. In Dunkirk, France, after a night's drinking. Englishmen Frank Lee and Eric Pape finally woke up, discovered that they had taken the wrong train, crossed the English Channel on a ferry instead of commuting home to their London suburb...
Unlike its Italian counterparts, The Beggar's Opera thrives on provincialism rather than pomp. British poet John Gay first wrote the operetta to chide government corruption and provide jobs for the vaudevillians displaced by sopranos and baritones from across the Channel. He felt that simple folk ballads sung with a minimum of gesticulation and vibretto could be as effective as full-range opera. With some perceptive acting, imaginative directing and photography the film version of Gay's work just about proves he was right...
...Sight. An aluminum TV antenna that promises good reception to televiewers 100 miles from stations has been developed by the Channel Master Corp. of Ellenville, N. Y. The antenna is made of two newly designed high-frequency antennas, one on top of the other, plus a gridlike reflector for picking up TV signals. Price: $20.83 plus installation...
...Canakkale, Turkey, Swimmer Florence Chadwick rounded out a breathless grand slam of four channels in five weeks by swimming the Dardanelles in the round-trip time of less than two hours in the choppy waters. Now the conqueror of the English Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, Swimmer Chadwick, 33, announced her retirement: "This is a sport for younger people. I think I'll take up golf." ¶ For an estimated $8,000 a year, First Lieut. Arnold Galiffa. 26, onetime West Point quarterback and 1949 All-America, gave up his Army career after three...
This beautiful "gesture of defiance flung at the mechanical age" met the fate of many a lovely sailing-ship. In 1910 at the mouth of the English Channel she was rammed by a "blundering steamer," was so weakened that a subsequent gale broke her back and sent her aground...