Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn...
...also comes to doubt that the artist is really blind. His effort to find out, in a walk along the lip of a cliff, is a hair-raising piece of melodrama. Quieter, but no less exciting, are the nasty undertows of purely psychological uneasiness, as the members of this perverse triangle take each other's measure...
...radar might not work if the airplane were flying directly toward a vertical cliff well over 2.000 ft. high with no foothills. But according to Hughes the U.S. has no such cliffs that an airplane can smash into. The foothills or lower slopes of most mountains should give warning in ample time to avoid a crash...
...movie has its moments-a night stampede along a cliff, several brutal fights and killings, and a long, tense stalking sequence, with rifles, in a pitch-dark canyon. It also has more than its quota of good performances, notably by Wally Cassell, Donald Crisp, Don DeFore, Lloyd Bridges. Best of all, it is finely set and photographed (by Allan O'Dea and Russell Harlan) and carefully directed (by Miss Lake's husband, Andre de Toth...
Quarter-miler Cliff Wharton and sprinter Dean Dunlavey were the only additional entries yesterday as the Varsity entrained for West Point, where they have a formal cinder date with Army, Missouri, Dartmouth and Columbia this afternoon. Forty competitors, a manager, coach, and trainer made up the Crimson encourage...