Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after the French formally transferred police powers to Moroccan authority, vengeance began. As the former Caid Omar Sektani and his secretary drove past a dusty camel market in Marrakech, their car was stopped by a mob, who shot both men, dragged their bodies to a nearby garbage heap and set them afire. Another mob burst into the home of Bel Mekki, shot him, cut up his body and tossed the pieces into a fire. Glaoui's old guards were caught, put into carts, tortured publicly, burned alive. Throughout the day and night mobs rampaged through the native...
Serenade (Warner) seems to indicate that humpty-dumpty Tenor Mario Lanza has put himself together again. He had a great fall several years ago when he rolled off the top of the heap for no apparent reason but his own fat-over 250 lbs. of it, with an undue proportion apparently located in the head. This picture proves that he is still the biggest thing in the cinemusic business: at "singing weight" (240 lbs.), he looks like a colossal ravioli set on toothpicks, and his face, aflame with rich living, has much the appearance of a gigantic red pepper...
...sheen, sometimes with more polish than depth, sometimes with not quite enough polish, but always firm and sometimes thrilling. By the time she reached her ultimate scene of terror and death, handsome U.S. Contralto Jean Madeira achieved a long-sought objective -to arrive at the top of the operatic heap in her own country...
...self-made. Britain, whose absentee landlords drained fat profits from the place with regularity after the British routed the Spaniards* in 1655, did not grant Jamaica limited self-government until 1944. At that time the island was so run-down that a visiting British commissioner called it "a dung heap of physical abomination...
...Workshop has been dusted off and brought back after nine years on the trash heap, says CBS Radio's Vice President Howard G. Barnes, because "drama stands up on radio," and CBS stations have been crying for more of it. Barnes, who put the Workshop back in working order, says that the connection between the old and new shows is that both are "experimental radio theater. We're going to try to go further into the world of ideas. We'll never get a sponsor anyway, so we might as well try anything. We hope...