Word: downs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The movie empire which Britain's Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank put together in 14 years was in the midst of its own austerity program. Up for sale this week at public auction will go his studios at Shepherd's Bush and Islington. Rank, who could use the money...
The ghastly fact had already been clear to British investors, who are taking a steadily dimmer view of Rank's future as a movie magnate. His producing enterprises have been in trouble before (in 1946 they lost ?474,777), but those were the hopeful days when Rank was talking...
third-rate education in overcrowded, ram shackle schools. This documentary focuses on the painstaking three-year fight by plain citizens of Virginia's Arlington County to get better public education for their children. By glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up...
The little escapade plunges the young people into a pretty kettle of fishy dilemmas and New England puritanism. In fact, it takes Director Mitchell Leisen, Paramount's special maestro of the improbable, another full reel to simmer their problems down to a happy ending. Most improbable bit: "Deacon" Henry...
The latest bird who is matching his powers of endurance against this one-button bandit is attempting to grow fat, according to latest results, by poker-facedly beating a tattoo of 63,000 pecks in 13 steady hours. The time interval that the bird is working is being lengthened, and...