Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Biggest: 164,876. in the week ending June 17, 1950.) Ford set a post-World War II record; both Chevrolet and Buick scored alltime highs...
...week before had made a vague speech recognizing the existence of "difficulties." Meanwhile the terror kept up against the Moroccans themselves. One wealthy local merchant was cornered in his garage and riddled with machine-gun fire. Another was killed as he drove to work in his green Ford Anglia. It was broad daylight and two Casablanca cops were standing nearby. Both denied seeing a thing...
Director John Ford saw the test, however, and wanted her for Mogambo. Even then, Grace did not come running. When M-G-M offered her a seven-year contract starting at $750 a week, she demanded a year off every two years for a play, and permission to go back to New York, instead of hanging around Hollywood, whenever she finished a picture. She was only 22, and all but unknown. But M-G-M agreed to her terms. Says Grace: "I wanted Mogambo for three things: John Ford, Clark Gable, and a free trip to Africa." In Africa, Grace...
Hundreds of Terrorists? At 10:15 p.m., as the Lincolns sat watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth made his way unnoticed into the presidential box, fired a bullet into the back of the President's head, and escaped across the stage to his horse in the back alley. Where was Lincoln's bodyguard? John F. Parker, of the Washington police force, was drinking at a bar next door; he had deserted his post at the door to the presidential box, through which the assassin passed. Who was Parker? A questionable type with...
Sure that "hundreds of terrorists were in Washington City," he ordered all firemen on the alert against possible mass arson. Without bothering about legal authority, he ordered the arrest of "every human being" employed at Ford's Theatre...