Word: englands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of the $33,000 is more dramatic than Senator Douglas, for it portrays the old Yankee doggedness that built New England. For ten generations the fishermen of Ogunquit and Perkins Cove (as the Josias River vicinity is known) had no harbor, and were forced to drag their boats over the rocks to safety during storms. Need for a sheltered basin grew as the fishing industry expanded...
Zatrzymac. In Stamford, England, Jan Rogowski, accused of dangerous driving, explained to the court: "I saw the 'Halt' sign, but by the time I had translated the word into my own language [zatrzymac, Polish for halt], I was in the middle of the crossroad and had a collision...
Hollywood, wanderlusting after fresh backgrounds and a chance to use up blocked foreign funds, keeps packing star off to location all around the globe (TIME June 6). Its No. 1 production colony England, which offers plenty of technical resources and no language bar. This week a leading British film critic voiced some frank qualms over the Yankee invasion
Wrote the Observer's C.A. Lejeune, in the New York Times: "The studios in and around London are tending to be come more & more a back lot for Hollywood." Almost all the major made-in-England films now coming up, Critic Lejeune noted, have a hands-across-the-sea flavor. Among their players (some in British-sponsored movies): Fredric March Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Valli, Ingrid Bergman, Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich Jennifer Jones, Robert Montgomery Douglas Fairbanks...
...Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship, which provides for a year's study at Cambridge University, England, has been won by David E. McGiffert '49 of Chicago, III. McGiffert has concentrated in history at Harvard, and was a member of the Varsity basketball squad and Chairman of the Eliot House Committee...