Word: coiling
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Slow Burn. In Colombes, France, Fernand Bria stabbed his friend Ramon Coll in the chest with a hunting knife, admitted to police that he had been brooding for some time over Coil's seduction of his wife 27 years...
...plane trip four years ago, a seatmate told John Burton Tigrett about a new toy. It was simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual...
...methods. Technically no more than an extended dialogue, pyrotechnically it constitutes a splendid show. There are drawbacks: like almost everything of Shaw's, the Hell Scene could be shorter. But the characters score their points like polished duelists, flash their rhetoric like master showmen, make ideas hiss and coil and spring like creatures of melodrama. There are drawbacks to the performers, too: Charles Boyer's decided French accent and Charles Laughton's occasional tendency to ham. But in general, the quartet offers fine ensemble playing, with Boyer a magnetic Juan, Laughton a suavely smiling Devil...
...Ormsby turned slowly on the bed, careful to keep the coil springs quiet, and as he lowered his feet he reached for his socks on the floor. They were gone. Well, he should have known that. They were gone Sunday mornings and all National holidays. This was not a National holiday, but it was a great day for Mother, and time for him, anyhow, to change his socks...
...week's end, station WKGR's chances of going back on the air were dim indeed. Owners Coil and Kirby left town for Texas, where they are now members of the U.S. Air Force. Owners McCarter and Scheiderer, both ex-servicemen, had just about decided to enlist. Ex-Advertising Manager Richard Pfar, daily expecting his own Army call, offered a final comment on the short, busy life of Station WKGR: "Gee, if we had known we were operating outside the law, we wouldn't have done...