Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense is afraid that the Russians may beat the U.S. in the satellite race. According to this theory, the Russians are probably working on a satellite just big enough to be tracked. It may carry a small radio transmitter, or it may inflate a balloon of aluminized plastic film. Expanded in space by a whiff of gas, it might reach a size that would be brilliantly visible at dusk or dawn. This bright Communist star, rising in the west every 90 minutes and streaking rapidly eastward, would win enormous prestige for its Soviet launchers. To head off such a possibility...
Looking like something out of an old Warner Bros. gangster film, hulking Ted Rij, Racketeer Johnny Dio's ex-bodyguard, slurred through the Fifth more than 35 times: "Standin' on my Con'stutional right, I 'cline to answer on grounds o' 'crimination." Woebegone, egg-bald Sam Zakman provided a sharply etched picture of a disillusioned Communist and displaced labor-racket boy. Zakman also provided the rare commodity of humor in describing Union Organizer Benny ("The Bug") Ross: "There's a fellow who did everything wrong, but he organized better than all of them...
Born. To Rosemary Clooney, 29, singing star of jukebox, TV and screen (Red Garters), and José Ferrer, 45, Puerto Rican-born stage actor-director (The Shrike) and film star (The Great Man): their third child, second son, prematurely (6½ months); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gabriel Vincente. Weight...
...Film Line Wanted. Today, with a line of 40 cameras selling from $39.95 up to $1,096, plus professional equipment selling for as much as $14,750, Bell & Howell estimates that 65% of its sales comes from products that were not even in existence five years ago. President Percy is now eying General Aniline & Film Corp., the German-controlled firm confiscated as alien property in World War II, which the U.S. Government is about to offer for sale. Percy wants the company particularly for its Ansco film division, so that Bell & Howell, which lacks a movie film line, can compete...
...making its turbid case for the golden rule, this film preaches with the earnestness of a morality play, but its melodramatic heights seldom attain those of Little Orphan Annie. Wallowing Methodically in his Slough of Despond, Sal Mineo-pouting, simpering, and rolling his eyeballs on the rocky road to manhood-is singularly unconvincing as a meek and mild sort of Michelangelo angel who is all set to inherit the earth...