Word: electra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nick Adams (i.e., young Hemingway), it is a brief, spare story that tells-mostly in a well-wrought ladder of dialogue-about two hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story's reading time of six minutes had been blown up to 90, and it sagged like an Add-A-Pearl, between an elaborate preamble and a rambling finale...
...Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's famed short story, The Killers, featuring World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson as the ex-heavyweight fighter and Dane Clark as a gunman hired...
...performances" and Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune felt he stood before "a sober and handsome monument" that was "enormously impressive" and, of course, "sheer theatre." Exclaimed John Mason Brown, Critic Emeritus of the Saturday Review (and Harvard, '23): "Never such greatness in the theatre--not since Mourning Becomes Electra, Green Pastures, or Our Town...
...ORDERS worth $40 million were placed by Capital Airlines for seven Convair 880s and five Lockheed Electra turboprops, to begin service in mid-1960. To place orders, Capital arranged to stretch out payments of $37 million owed for its 57 Vickers Viscount turboprops...
...planes. There are so few orders that major planemakers are building for stock-putting together planes and praying that they will be sold one day. A buyer can get delivery of a turboprop Viscount or Britannia in two to three months, v. twelve months for a U.S. Lockheed Electra...