Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vichy government sentenced him to ten years in jail for conducting a virtual one-man war against German occupation. U.S. and British generals who served with him in Italy and France after his escape stood in constant awe, and De Lattre made sure that they continued to do so. Once he chewed out General Marshall himself because of a delayed shipment of supplies. Years later, informed that Marshall had forgotten the incident, De Lattre remarked: "Nonsense! The general is polite. Nobody whom I have castigated ever forgets...
...such handicaps of plot, but with the help of some amusing dialogue, Nightclub Comic Danny Thomas puts remarkable warmth into a portrait of Kahn. The songwriter is pictured as an earnest craftsman of simple tastes, shy beneath a brash surface, who needed, resented and forgave his wife's constant efforts to push him forward. Actor Thomas' performance won him a four-year Warner contract before the picture's release...
...trustees had a good idea of the sort of man they wanted. He had to be young enough to stand constant travel, old enough to have had solid administrative experience. He also had to be something of a scholar. After looking over 75 candidates, the trustees last week announced their choice; William S. Carlson, 46, president of the University of Vermont...
...Below Zero. Jewell's trucks keep up a constant exchange of baby chicks for fattened broilers. After a final 36 hours of heavy feeding, the broilers are hung on a moving belt in Jewell's processing plant and killed, plucked, cleaned and rolled into a tunnel, where they are frozen stiff for shipping by a blast of 30-below-zero wind at 40 m.p.h. Jewell wastes little of the chicken. From the insides he makes soap oils and "tankage," which goes back into feed. From feathers he makes fertilizer...
Though the supporting cast is not nota ble, the mechanics of production are. Un like Hamlet or Macbeth, which starts racing with the very first scene, Antony lacks pickup. But Director Michael Bent-hall, linking scene to scene with processional figures on a revolving stage, gives the play constant flow. Designer Purse's sets are good-looking and practical; Herbert Menges' music has genuine appeal...