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...office space on the shores of the Mediterranean (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953), hurried back to the U.S. from France "to clear my name." He is under indictment with eight others on the charge of defrauding the U.S. Government by buying surplus tankers through U.S. front corporations. This did not cramp his style. Last week he announced that with the approval of King Saud he had formed a new company to operate some 25 ships transporting about 10% of Saudi Arabia's oil exports...
Nelson keeps his actors fresh by rehearsing them less than any other dramade show on the air-only six hours a week before going on camera. He tries to avoid directorial "writer's cramp" in himself by taking on outside chores with other shows and other networks, e.g., directing such westerns as ABC's Outlaw's Reckoning or such thrillers as Brandenburg Gate, as a refreshing change of pace...
...Ireland?" Lindbergh carries five sandwiches in a brown paper bag, a canteen of water, a rubber raft, two small flashlights, a knife, and not much more except an iron will. For the first hours, that will is lightly tested, an occasional nodding daydream, a slight arm or leg cramp. Now & then he takes a swallow of water and keeps alert by checking his instruments and charts. But after nightfall, with The Spirit of St. Louis a dot over the Atlantic, fog closes in. Lindbergh looks for holes, climbs to 10,000 ft., goes down to 10 ft. above the vicious...
...clowning or glowering. "One should sing as the birds one is with," he explained. Then, in a succession of upsets, he knocked three top-seeded stars out of the tournament. In each case, his victim had a physical alibi: the U.S.'s Gardnar Mulloy (No. 5) a leg cramp, Australia's Ken Rosewall (No. 1) a queasy stomach, Czech-born Jaroslav Drobny (No. 4) a wrenched leg muscle. Nonetheless, there Nielsen was: a Wimbledon finalist, and the first unseeded one since...
Then, as suggested in Tuesday's editorial, Ahf instructors should accept recently written course papers for a percentage of the year's total assignment. This would both relieve Freshmen writing cramp and allow the instructor to check students' ability to sustain decent writing through fairly long papers...