Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photographers, of course, had the first, and toughest, go at the story and got, by all odds, closest to the animals-sometimes too close for comfort. After a day inside the snake house at the San Diego zoo, Photographer Herman V. Wall found that getting out of the way fast at the sound of the rattlesnake's rattle became second nature. Later, while unloading his film holder, Wall learned that the sliding door of the closet in his hotel room gave the same ominous warning. When his assistant opened it unexpectedly, Wall "jumped six feet...
Gielgud's direction of "Love for Love" keeps the thing moving fast, and never lets the general spirit of good-humor escape. The settings, especially that of a neo-classic drawing room (with adjoining bedrooms) are as authentic as they are waggish. The play is going to be in town only a few more days. If there is plenty of time it might be a good idea to read it before going, but inability to do that should keep no one away...
...Worried." Some of his competitors got up at 6 a.m. to get in some practice on the fast cork rings out by the boardwalk. Larry was used to getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said...
...previous champs, was a boy from Pittsburgh. He was wan, twelve-year-old Benjamin Sklar, son of Russian-born parents. Ben had borrowed the well-worn agate shooter of the Pittsburgh kid who won the crown two years ago. He had also prepared for Wildwood's fast rings by doing most of his marble-shooting on an asphalt tennis court near his home on Winterburn Avenue. His secret: "Just roll it into the ring and put a little spin on it, that...
Viruses, says Burnet, are an unhappy byproduct of civilization; they cannot survive in small or widely scattered populations. Because viruses multiply fast and change in unexpected ways, "new virus diseases of man may well arise in the future." But the chances against any new virus getting a strong foothold are a million...