Word: flyering
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Winston Churchill seemed about to take a flyer. For the first time, he registered racing colors with Britain's Jockey Club-the required preliminary to racing one's own horses. The Churchill colors: chocolate, with pink sleeves...
...Miami Beach, the mother of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, announced her pretty daughter's engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, wartime Hump flyer and son of the former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, fast-stepping "Mr. Outside" of wartime West Point football, who long held the inside track with Elizabeth, was now definitely on the outside. Yes, Elizabeth had worn Glenn's gold football, Mrs. Taylor admitted, but only as "a perfectly normal part of growing up." Elizabeth, looking alluringly grown up last week, flashed a 3½-carat diamond at reporters. "Nice piece...
...years, crinkle-eyed Texan Cliff Mooers has collected a wide assortment of animals ranging from Alaskan huskies (he was a gold prospector in 1913) to mynah birds, flamingos, monkeys and penguins. After World War I, in which he served as a flyer, Cliff Mooers went into the oil business, made some fortunate strikes and became president of the Shasta Oil Co. That gave him a chance to do something else he wanted to do: he established a deer sanctuary on his Texas ranch where he ran everything from mule deer to rare muntjac barking-deer imported from India...
This is all mixed with a modern girl, the niece of the now-senile Niven, who comes to stay in the house, in 1940 and meets a young flyer. They, too, are in love but manage to hide it from each other until almost too late. The elderly uncle observes all this with disquiet, and divides his time between hearing the voice of the non-dead Lark and advising the girl to get off the dime and marry...
...acting, though, is excellent right down the line. Meredith is only Meredith, but it fits. Dulcie Gray as his wife mixes helplessness with devotion and comes up with the correct martyrdom. But little black-haired Barbara White, who is on screen for ten minutes as the flyer's wife, is on her way to stardom. A mobile face that coordinates magically with her lines enables Miss White to strip everything unessential and distracting from the heart of her role. Kieron Moore stalks sulkily as her moody, proud, and dangerous husband...