Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which has taken a perpetual lease on 740 RKO features and 1,000 shorts. The features include such old favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kitty Foyle, Stage Door, Having Wonderful Time, Once Upon a Honeymoon and eight Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. All the films in the package may now be rented to TV stations for immediate screening across the nation, with General Teleradio getting exclusive rights to the movies in the six communities where it runs TV stations...
...speech sent China's Communists flying into action. New cadres were trained and sent out to ginger up timorous local committees; schools for two million bookkeepers were started. Evidently there were sweeping changes in the top command: Teng Tsu-hui, China's farm boss, has not been seen or heard from since. By last month the Central Committee was ready to spring the new line. Mao's speech (made public for the first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into...
...imagination early. What she saw on the screen she became in real life -at least for the rest of the day. After the weekly Weissmuller, she and her two brothers played Tarzan in the sumac ("I was an ape"). As the movie-madness grew, she became Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. She filled dozens of scrapbooks with pictures of her favorites. The high point of her girlhood came when a schoolboy said she reminded him of Bette Davis. Gone With the Wind she saw 13 times, and in one month of 1942 she sat through 52 motion pictures...
Hugh Gaitskell, whom many of the hornyhanded old Socialists consider too academic as a candidate for leader, seized the chance to show some ginger. "I am a Socialist because I hate and loathe social injustice, because I hate the class structure that disfigures our society, because I hate poverty and squalor!" he cried. "Nationalization is a means, and not an end in itself." The delegates, surprised at such spice, roared an ovation...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Time Out for Ginger, with Jack Benny, Gary Crosby, Edward Everett Horton...