Word: connections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew just how remarkable it was, until 349,000 were shipped to Korea and Japan in 1950. In the field, G.I.s found that the bulky garment was too heavy (8 Ibs.) and too long. If a soldier tried to run in the coat, the leggings (which managed to connect the ankles directly with the neck) would trip him. Said one Korea veteran, when asked what he did on the run: "I'd take off the coat and throw it on a truck...
There's a rumor going around that in Niagara the Falls are more impressive than Marilyn Monroe. As far as drama goes, this may be true. In any other department, Miss Monroe easily out-strips her competition. Unfortunately, Niagara tries to connect various shots of Miss Monroe's calculated walk with a draggy story about a woman plotting to murder her husband. The film, then, can only be fantasy, for Miss Monroe is obviously incapable of plotting anything...
Every year about this time, poets, young girls, and fashion writers frantically seek fresh, unique unwritten about harbingers of Spring. One used to be able to point to Braves Field, and connect the activity there with the first swallow. But the Braves are no longer in Braves Field. Perhaps one could point to the occult Rain Dance of the Hopi Indians as the first indication of the new season. But, while rain is a common feature of a Cambridge Spring, Hopi Indians are exceedingly rare, and one could never find enough together at one time to perform their Rain ceremony...
...mistake to concentrate on one or the other now. What it could use is better acting: only Lucile Watson as the imperious spinster, and Zasu Pitts at moments as the maid, are up to the roles. But The Bat is fair fun even when it doesn't connect with the ball...
...Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky's dreams to blow up when the attempt was made to connect them to the surging voltages of everyday life. This has never troubled Bucky. No matter what happens on earthly levels, his mind goes its own soaring way. Currently it is full of another concept of shelter for the human family in the form of'a great whirling blade overhead, which swishes...