Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frowning, forbidding, 2,000-foot cliff of Cape Eternity, the ships will slow down. Their jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes between Capes Trinity and Eternity-what Christopher Morley called "Yowling a klaxon at Eternity...
...followed the runner to first. It has since learned that one of television's big thrills is watching Outfielder Joe DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without looking back spurt to the right spot, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. The unexpected makes some of television's brightest moments: a rainstorm breaks, and the camera shows ground keepers covering the pitcher's box with canvas, then sweeps across the bleachers, singling out soaked fans huddling under newspapers. The key man is the camera director...
Invasion. Last month Foges secured a beachhead in the U.S. He reorganized Chanticleer Press, his Manhattan office, as a full-fledged publishing house. Next fall Chanticleer will invade the U.S. market with children's books, nature books, a series on American furniture, silver...
...Last fall, over three million people saw the World Series on television, and the big, grid-shaped antennae began to appear on the rooftops of New York City houses and apartments. The Louis-Walcott fight in December was witnessed by more than a million people. On the Monday and Tuesday after the fight, RCA sold 2,400 telesets...
When Hollywood committed itself on the issue of communism last fall, under the pressure of Congress and Wall Street, every major West Coast studio rushed home, hoping to be the first to register priority on the film title "The Iron Curtain" for future production. Twentieth-Century Fox won the footrace and subsequently assigned a Mr. Milton Krims to fill in the required screen play. The same Mr. Krims can be significantly remembered for his other scenario--"Confessions of a Nazi Spy." The sure fire true story of the Canadian Soviet spy ring naturally presented itself as his answer: the results...