Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell and Irene Dunne (TIME...
...Continent Lost. The Atlantis (jointly sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Columbia University and the National Geographic Society) was equipped with sonic depth-finders, seismographs and other up-to-date gadgets of sea-bottom exploration. Most promising work was done by dredges, which brought up samples of rock. The rocks have not yet been studied, but Columbia's Professor Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, hopes that they will tell much about the geological origin of the underwater range...
...know [laughter]. Somehow we will make out. . . . The general level of education . . . must be raised if we are to disappoint the Kremlin with the vigor of our society. . . . You must work hard here, and you must think. That is probably harder work than you have ever done...
Like the other independents, Slick had done this without any Government help -and lost $1,300,000 doing it. (He hopes to start making money this month.) But the regular airlines, said Slick, making the case for the independents, get 45? to $5.01 a ton-mile for carrying the U.S. mail. "How," he demanded, "can they have it both ways? If they can afford to carry freight for 12?, why do they need 45? for mail?" Answered he: "It is an obvious attempt to drive us to the wall...
...more believable kinds of play, Director Garnett shows what a good movie this might have been. His harvesters' dance is a fine, forlorn scene, and he stages quite a hair-raising wheat fire and a particularly violent chase. But he seems to have realized that nothing could be done with the tense Lamour-Ladd relationship except to treat it as slightly ridiculous...