Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Table's guests, as diversified as its donors, have run the gauntlet from English naval officers to Cambridge politicians. Ex-City Manager Atkinson, and Cambridge City Mayor Crane have both come more than once, as well as various distinguished Lowell House alumni who make their presence in Boston known to the House Secretary...
...city council has instructed City Manager John J. Curry to confer with Fire Chief John F. Collins and Police Chief Patrick F. Ready to discuss the advisability of adopting the three-days-off reward permanently. The action came after Councilman Edward A. Crane pointed out that at least 25 false alarms have been sounded in the last few weeks...
...better is the dry humor of Stephen Crane's cowpoke story, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. A hard-drinking, fast-shooting old reprobate named Scratchy (Minor Watson), the last bad man left in the little western town of Yellow Sky, is sadly disillusioned when his longtime antagonist, the town marshal (Robert Preston), brings home a bride. Confronted with an unfamiliar atmosphere of respectability, Scratchy resignedly throws away his six-shooter and says farewell once & for all to his glorious gun-toting past. In James Agee's lean adaptation and in some peppery performances, The Bride Comes...
...first offering of Huntington Hartford, 40-year-old art patron and heir to A & P millions, who decided to turn producer, with plans to deliver two pictures a year during the next three years for RKO release. It also introduces to the screen (as the beguiling bride of Crane's sheriff) Marjorie Steele, a onetime cigarette girl in a Hollywood nightspot, who is Hartford's wife in real life...
ROBERT M. CRANE, 35, Episcopalian; mortally wounded by enemy shellfire on March 11, 1952. He was awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster (in lieu of a second Bronze Star) for heroism...