Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Storm Warning (Warner). A traveling dress model (Ginger Rogers) stops off in a Southern town to visit her married sister (Doris Day). She hardly sets foot on the town's strangely dark and empty main street when she stumbles on a violent scene: a sheeted mob of Ku Klux Klansmen hauls a man out of jail, beats him, shoots him down on the sidewalk...
...Ginger is the only witness to the murder, and almost the only one in town who might dare to testify against the high-riding Klan. But when she meets her brother-in-law (Steve Cochran) for the first time, she recognizes him as one of the murdering Klansmen. Buffeted by her sister's pleading, the Klan's threats and pressure from a Klan-busting prosecutor (Ronald Reagan), she must decide whether to join or break the town's scared conspiracy of silence...
...will take fur-flying action to instill the ginger and combat spirit that troops need at a time when the Princess Pats are moving into their first Korean action (see WAR IN ASIA), and plans are under way to fit some 6,000 Canadian soldiers into U.S. formations under General Eisenhower's command in Germany. Simonds must also continue to speed up the recruiting drive and put some spark into the halfhearted reserve program...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Ginger Rogers and Lee Tracy in Within...
...next week, BBC announced a TV show that any sponsor would give his eyeteeth to have. Its star-if she turns up: ginger-haired, hazel-eyed Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII. Since she was beheaded in 1542, Catherine has wandered each night about her former bedchamber in Hampton Court Palace, has become one of the most celebrated ghosts in all England. While waiting hopefully for her to appear, a BBC mobile unit will televise the Queen's treasured possessions...