Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dan Reed wanted to play rough, he could get his powerful committee to set up some roadblocks of its own against the Administration's legislative program, until his tax cut is waved ahead. But Dan Reed, for nine years a football coach at Cornell, doesn't play that way. Says Reed: "I never let my football team play dirty and I don't myselt...
Davey, a southpaw powderpuff puncher with fancy-Dan footwork, stayed on even terms with Gavilan for the first two rounds. In Round 3, Gavilan opened up with one of his famed flurries, pummeling with lefts, rights and his own uppercutting bolo punch. Davey, bewildered by the barrage, was dumped to the canvas for a nine count, the first time he had ever been knocked down. From then on it was just a matter of time, and Gavilan took his time. In Rounds 5 and 6, Gavilan switched styles and fought southpaw too, "just...
...trick ending reveals all the preceding events to have been nothing more than a pipe dream resulting from mass hypnosis induced by a mysterious stranger (Dan O'Herlihy) as a plea for preparedness. To go with this stock plot is a good deal of stock newsreel footage of atomic explosions and battle scenes. The newsreel shots give the picture what little authenticity...
Last week, with Dan Kimball gone and Republican Robert Anderson not yet confirmed, Francis Whitehair was in his glory. (John Floberg, whom Lovett had intended to be Acting Secretary of the Navy, sat in his Pentagon office ruefully trying to laugh the whole thing off.) Asked whatever happened to that letter of resignation, Whitehair said blandly: "I do not know . . . But I'm not going to call the White House to find out. And I'm not going to call the White House every day to find out if I'm Secretary of the Navy...
...York taxicab. The fanciful story tells of an Irish colleen (Constance Smith) who arrives in New York with her baby to find her husband, a no-good fellow who wooed and won her in Dublin and then disappeared. With the help of a cocky cab driver (Dan Dailey), the pretty immigrant finally tracks down her man. By then, of course, it has long been obvious that her heart belongs to the cabbie...