Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophomores Dave Whitman and Glenn Sister captured the 440 free style, and John Lind and Jack Dinsmoor placed...
...five big money pictures so far (in the U.S. and Canada only), reported by Variety: 1) Paramount's White Christmas, which, though it has been playing less than three months, has already grossed $12 million; Columbia's The Caine Mutiny, $8,700,000; Universal's The Glenn Miller Story, $7,000,000; Fox's The Egyptian, $6,000,000; Paramount's Rear Window...
...James Glenn, NBC's man for special effects, imported three varieties of snow for Christmas week: 1) confetti, for stage-trained comics who see no reason for changing a theater convention that dates back to Uncle Tom's Cabin; 2) modern, featherweight plastic snow that measures about twice the size of nature's flakes and is used mostly on dramatic shows, where it is scattered over a scene from "snow drops" (rotary drums) that are suspended over the set; and 3) a foamy snow spray, also plastic, that is released from an aerosol bomb by a stagehand...
...Glenn reports that one problem is still baffling the special-effects experts: how to make an actor's breath look frosty in an outdoor winter scene. Glenn thought he had solved it by wrapping a piece of dry ice in a sponge and placing it in the actor's mouth: "It worked fine. The actor looked like an express locomotive huffing and puffing on an upgrade." But. regretfully, the idea had to be abandoned because "there was too much danger of the actor's burning his mouth...
Died. Lee Morse, 50, blues-singing star of early radio, vocalist for the Blue Grass Boys in the 1920s and '30s, song writer (Shadows on the Wall), sister of Glenn Taylor, former left-wing Democratic U.S. Senator from Idaho; in Rochester...