Word: galleys
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Desi has begun buying galley proofs of novels directly from publishers, "the same way major studios do," and is looking for fresh writing talent in colleges. He hopes to set up a studio workshop for acting tyros and a system of talent scouts. And he does not stop there in emulating the lost grandeur of the big studios. Says he: "If we get a good story that just won't fit on that small screen, then we'll do it as a movie feature...
...British engine in production), but are so fuel thirsty that no nonsubsidized airline could operate the planes at a profit. Some of the radio equipment, including an obsolete, ice-catching clothesline antenna, is far below U.S. standards. Outside, riveting on the plane's skin was inferior. The galley had ornate wood paneling, but no refrigeration...
...designed for snappy good looks and family fun. The yachtsman's wife, not the yachtsman himself, is the customer the boatyards want to please. Says a Chris-Craft executive: "Instead of portholes, we have the marine counterpart of the picture window. Men were satisfied with heads and galleys which were functional but inconveniently located. Women won't have it that way; they want galleys in the open, where they can call up the deckhouse easily, and they want plenty of space. The galley has automatic hot-and cold-water systems, dish racks, food-storage cabinets and the main...
...A.B.C. championship Chicago team almost intact; Detroit's Pfeiffer Beer, only team ever to win three championships (1952, '53, '55), lit up the Coliseum with their brown and yellow uniforms. The Budweiser team drove down from St. Louis in a flashy, $250,000 bus, complete with galley, six bunks, a bathroom with shower, and a private compartment for Budweiser's August Anheuser Busch Jr. In the individual competitions were all bowling's big names and, to TV fans, familiar faces. Chief among them was Lou Campi, Dumont, N.J. contractor whose awkward, wrong-foot bowling style...
...summoned Heath to a yacht to treat a woman who was bleeding dangerously from a severed artery in her thumb. Heath popped a rubber band around the thumb for a tourniquet, had an assistant sterilize instruments in a pot of boiling prunes that happened to be bubbling in the galley, proceeded to suture the wound...