Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighters in quantity and have bombers in service "twice as big as our largest." Through lethargy and bad planning, Britain's planemakers have missed the rich civilian market for helicopters, light business aircraft and long-range jet airliners. Even if the British wished to introduce U.S. designs, "we haven't the means of transferring them to the production belt. We are building planes almost identically in the way we did 15 or 20 years...
...Helen, I do. That's why I believe you haven't told me the-whole truth...
...reason, John (Teahouse of the August Moon) Patrick's screenplay detours the action from the Philadelphia Main Line to the equally posh confines of Newport. There, frosty and imperious Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) delicately dithers over the three men in her life: her ex-husband, C. K. Dexter-Haven (Bing Crosby), an aristocratic jazz devotee who insists on calling her "Sam"; her husband-to-be, George Kittredge (John Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down...
...HAVEN'T SEEN HER LATELY, by E. X. Ferrars (186 pp.; Doubleday; $2.75), asks some arresting questions but dawdles a little too long over the answers. Has dear old Aunt Violet, married late in life, been done in by a Bluebeard husband? Or is she merely being driven out of her mind so that he can control her property and income? The nicely drawn English countryside is pleasant and relaxing, but the colorless romance of Aunt Violet's niece, who spearheads the inquiries, is soporific...
...touchy word on ice. When a Cincinnati fan subtly applied the same epithet to the Dodgers' Centerfielder Duke Snider ("Whatsamatter Duke, you gutless?"), the Duke answered with a sharp, crisp left. Encouraged by a Cincinnati judge, the two battlers shook hands and made up. "But I still haven't got my two teeth back," complained...