Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown made most of its ground yard-age through the guards, as so many of Harvard's opponents have done this year. Except for the final goal line stand in the third period, Harvard's defense was unimpressive...
What saves the film is the production-even the "thriller" section is handled with subtlety and fine acting. More important, the film was done with a skillful sense of humor. The dialogue is bright and witty, the comic relief sophisticated and highly effective. Throughout the tenseness of the investigation, one of the policemen persists in talking to the embassy in lumbering French, although they always reply in perfect English. And the come logic of a child's mind is played for its full charm. Bobby Henrey as Felipe gives the top performance of a well-acted movie. There is none...
There was little to be done. Fifty-four of the 55 men, women & children on the DC-4-among them famed Cartoonist Helen Hokinson (see PRESS), Congressman George J. Bates of Massachusetts-had died in the river or in a horrid welter of broken bodies, smashed baggage and torn metal on shore. One woman lived long enough to die in a hospital. It was the biggest death toll in U.S. airline history...
...point of dying in Klerksdorp . . . Yet the enlightened men of Klerksdorp have not assuaged all our post-earthly anxieties. Will St. Peter provide separate counters for applicants for immortality? Will mixed celestial orchestras twang their harps and so destroy in heaven all the good the intelligentsia of Klerksdorp have done on earth? We must not be captious. It is enough for the moment to know that one can see Klerksdorp, and die-like a white...
...Much Wenlock to shoot Gone to Earth's climactic scenes. They found a new and unexpected chill in the Shropshire air: there was not a Master of Foxhounds in sight who would lend a pack of hounds to them. They tried farther afield, but the Sports Society had done its work well. "We gave no orders to any M.F.H.," explained its Assistant Secretary Michael Shephard. "We simply advised them that in the opinion of the B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned to London. "We hope that somewhere," wrote Messrs...