Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite pleased and impressed with your May 26 article regarding the second generation in motion pictures. There are some third and fourth generations in the American theater. I fall into the category of the third. My grandfather, Frank Keenan, who came from the stage, was a big star in silent pictures ; I am sure that my father, Ed Wynn, needs no introduction, and I have been in pictures for the last 15 years...
...general's Cabinet meetings-which he uses chiefly to announce decisions he has already reached-Information Chief Andre Malraux brashly chose to compare them to "those in Napoleon's time." French journalists, accustomed to subsisting off the daily indiscretions of the Cabinet ministers of the Fourth Republic, saw the whole thing in a different light. "Covering the government," moaned one, "is like trying to cover the court of the Emperor of Japan...
ARMED FORCES Carrier New York State champagne frothed across the bow of the fourth of the U.S.'s 60,000-ton Forrestal-class supercarriers at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn last week, and the Navy christened her Independence. The Navy's provisional date for commissioning Independence: some time in January. She will be powered by turbines producing 250,000 h.p., is figured to reach a top speed of nearly 35 knots, will carry 100 planes and launch them at the rate of eight a minute, be manned by a crew of more than 4,000. Total...
...Toledo last week bullfight officials were faced with that old problem and brought forth a new solution. The fourth bull of the corrida had charged out of the toril, thundered after the first cape it saw, and. then plunged headlong into the protective wall with a shock that quivered spectators from sombra to sol. After that, the bull just did not seem interested in anything. Matador Julio Aparicio, although the bull was his responsibility, made no move to dispatch him. When all else failed, the president of the ring sent a quick message to the chief ring attendant. The gate...
...Herb ("Mr. San Francisco") Caen tried to peddle the services of a private eye. For five days last week, from midafternoon to midnight, these and a hundred other prominent San Franciscans acted as volunteer auctioneers for some 5,000 items donated by San Francisco merchants or individuals. Occasion: the fourth annual fund-raising auction for San Francisco's KQED-TV, the community-owned educational television station...