Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antoine Albertini heard a spine-tingling sound coming from the main gallery; he was not a nervous man, but the gallery held most of the 114 famous paintings of the "Masterpieces of the 20th Century" exhibit (TIME, June 2) and they were worth millions. Albertini cat-footed to the doorway and froze in his tracks. Visible in the glow from the windows were two men cutting masterpieces out of their frames with razors. Albertini whipped out his pistol, cried, "Haut les mains...
...moment there was complete silence. Then Britain's temperamental Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery delivered an impromptu eulogy, wound up by locking Ike in an affectionate bear hug, while the others roared, cheered and dabbed at their eyes. Ike broke away and started for the door. At the doorway he paused and clasped his hands over his head in a prizefighter's salute. Then, digging for his own handkerchief, he swung out the door and into U.S. politics...
...glitter attendant on last autumn's visit by Princess Elizabeth, wasn't quite ready to be enthusiastic about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands. Frankly, a good many photographs . made Juliana look like an unregal and rather dumpy Hausjrau. But from the moment she stepped out of the doorway of the KLM plane which brought her across the Atlantic last week, Washington began changing its mind...
...interior shots are filmed in the Stockholm studios, but Reynolds makes periodic tours of the Continent, setting up his camera for exteriors of Parisian boulevards, Viennese squares, Berlin freight yards. He often shoots unscheduled scenes (e.g., Actor Thor bursting out of an ornate doorway and running up an architecturally impressive street, or Actress Scott dodging through the ruins of Hamburg) and then writes them into future plots...
When a town was low on schoolteachers, Mrs. Henrichsen pitched in as a substitute. She not only comforted the dying, but once gave the undertaker a hand when a coffin had to be upended through a narrow doorway and a body hoisted through a window on a stretcher. She has driven a patient to the hospital, been mired in back-country roads, listened while unmarried mothers sobbed out their problems on her shoulder, and heard a girl say, "I'm glad we have a woman pastor-I couldn't have done that if you had been...