Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League of Nations imposed its sanctions against Italy, but, thanks to Costantini, the Italian dictator knew that they were largely a bluff. When the British home fleet came steaming into the Mediterranean, set on frightening the Duce, Mussolini's fear was considerably abated by the fact that he knew from Admiralty orders that the fleet had every intention of going peaceably home again...
Under George Roy Hill's able direction, Perkins plays a smoldering, resentful, romantic teen-age Eugene with a quiet sensibility that gives his last vibrant scenes (the very last is one too many) their stunning force. Jo Van Fleet is extraordinarily good as the mother; as the father, Hugh Griffith acts with a vigor and virtuosity that match the role. The play, at its best, conveys how, for almost every true writer, youth is a bursting of bonds and a simultaneous bondage to dreams; and how, for most men, the impact of their own flesh and blood can become...
...Hollywood, Tony looks fine. His latest picture: Paramount's The Tin Star. Waiting to be released are three other films he cranked out for Paramount this year-The Matchmaker, with Shirley Booth, Desire Under the Elms, with Sophia Loren, and This Bitter Earth, with Jo Van Fleet. Two earlier Perkins films are still packing them in: Fear Strikes Out, the story of Red Sox Outfielder Jimmy Piersall, and Friendly Persuasion, made with his good friend and sometime mentor, Gary Cooper...
...penny. The trouble is its size. The Viscount's 44-seat capacity puts it at a disadvantage against 60-to 90-passenger Douglas DC-7s and Lockheed Super Constellations on highly traveled routes. Moreover, when Capital switched to Viscounts, it was unable to sell its aging fleet of DC-4s and early-model Constellations. Capital still flies the old planes, estimates that its inability to sell them cost about $1,000,000 last year, just about the extent of its deficit...
Died. James Edwin (Ted) Meredith, 65, fleet-footed oldtime track champion who won fame at the age of 20 by setting a world record for the 800-meter run at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, later set the 440-and 880-yd. records, also served as an income-tax-delinquent hunter; after long illness; in Camden...