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...fear by its magnificence. Samoan natives insisted that the moon had burst, and a Bible-reading lady in New Zealand called a newspaper office to ask calmly if the end of the world had begun. Watchers on the beach at Hawaii gasped in surprise at the unexpected daylight, and the pilot of a Canadian Pacific airliner flying to Sydney turned his plane about to give his passengers a breathtaking view of the eerie sight. "Everybody has seen fireballs in pictures." said an amazed Hawaiian, "but no one has ever seen the sky on fire before...
...James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they have...
...most ambitious attempt to fill the void is the Minneapolis Daily Herald, introduced May 1 by Minneapolis Adman Maurice McCaffrey. Although the Herald has little visible merit, cribs freely from TV newscasts, lacks even a wire service, and drips with errors (its daylight-saving time announcement missed the changeover by 24 hours), McCaffrey claims a press...
...opening night, guests wandered around the huge pool (where during daylight hours bikini-clad "starlets" would bring the indolent customer a drink or a cold cut) under the flickering light of a huge gold torch, which belched flames...
...spent the Pacific crossing reviewing plans, writing a will, cleaning his service pistol in case the mission failed and he had to kill himself. Off Oregon, the pilot had to wait a week for suitable catapulting weather. When it came, he made one 2½-hr. bombing run by daylight, a second 20 days later in the dark. Three of his bombs were duds; the fourth started a small blaze that was quickly spotted and doused by forest rangers. The raid made headlines in Japan, but Fujita got no promotion, no bonus, no glory...