Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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18th Century France (The Devil's Laughter, by Frank Yerby; Dial). In the turmoil of Revolution and Terror, a third-estate hero runs afoul of a villainous second-estate chap, toys with a tawny-haired demimondaine whose kisses curl his toes inside his boots, but nobly marries Fleurette, a blind flower girl...
With the networks putting on more dramatic shows than ever before, U.S. TV may soon be duplicating the success of British TV drama, which has already given four successful plays to the London stage: Anastasia, Dial "M" for Murder (also a Broadway hit), Morning Departure and The Happiest Days of Your Life...
...speedometer" built by Raytheon Manufacturing Co. eases the Job of the LSO. It watches the approaching jet by radar and measures its speed accurately. This information, fed into an electronic computer, is combined with wind data. The final figure, displayed on a dial, tells the LSO accurately whether the jet is approaching at the proper speed for a "third-wire" landing...
...Made of alcohol sulphates and sodium phosphate. Though "detergent" actually means any type of cleanser, including soap, in popular usage it now means one based on chemicals instead of natural fats or oils. -To promote its Dial' soap, Armour & Co. last week announced a contest with a producing oil well as first prize. -But not out of ownership. Cincinnati Philanthropist Cecil H. Gamble, 69, grandson of Founder James, is currently a P. & G. director and one of the biggest single stockholders. No Procters are connected with P. & G. today...
Tiomkin agrees that his newest job is a tough one. The picture: a melodrama called Dial M for Murder. Says he: "I can't make theme song with title ... I think it will be little bit novelty song, a kind of song about dialing phone with little bit orchestral effect ... It will be just melody in picture, and then words will be written afterwards so melody be suited for exploitation...