Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, at the end of the line-in the mining town of Kalgoorlie on the very edge of the great Australian desert-detectives at last caught up with Norman Morton-Stewart. He was down to his last eleven shillings elghtpence ha'penny. Charged with vagrancy and clapped into a tin-roofed jail that crawled with cockroaches, he put in a collect call to England. "Darling!" cooed his faithful Lady Barbara, "don't worry about anything! When are you coming home...
CRIMSON editors will desert the newspaper game this weekend in order to give all rival publications a chance to print parodies to their heart's content. No official CRIME will appear Monday, but readers should expect myriads of fakes...
...Mexico's rich Mesilla Valley last week, Farmer Deane Stahmann was running a Shmoo-like business which promised to revolutionize the agriculture of the valley. Farmer Stahmann was just the man to do it. He had inherited some land, and by leveling and irrigating more, transformed desert-like land into a 4,000-acre cotton farm. It helped make the Mesilla Valley one of the important U.S. cotton-producing areas. By pioneering with the planting of pecan trees between the cotton rows, Farmer Stahmann had brought a new commercial crop to the valley and made himself the U.S. pecan...
...stone-clicking sequence from Pica Zapata, in which the backwoods Bonaparte is led away by soldiers to the ominous cadence of impassive peasants clicking stones; the recurrent low angle, high tension shot of the rails beside the desert station in High Noon; the lack of a final scene in The Snipe, which would have been anti-climatic in the best beat-the audience over the head tradition...
...Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. (Robert Taylor), who was assigned to spearhead the historic Operation Silverplate. The film shows Colonel Tibbets testing and perfecting the new 6-29 long-range bomber in 1943, assembling and training a group of Air Force experts at Wendover Field in the Utah desert during 1944, piloting the Enola Gay (named after his mother), which dropped the first atom bomb on Japan in August...