Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blimps, helicopters, jet planes and big bombers flew over Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first flight. At the same time the original Wright airplane-which was recently brought to the U.S. after 20 years in London's Science Museum-was hung up beside Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...MARY HILL DOOLITTLE Great Neck...
...sets and the extras moving through them were so authentic that, after eleven weeks of shooting, the atmosphere on the huge sound stage often became intensely uncomfortable. "Juniper Hill State Hospital" grew as real to the actors' eyes as to the camera's lens. At one point, an elderly extra, abstractedly scratching her stomach, turned to one of the actresses and said: "Hey, didja ever see so many characters in one place?" As the actress recalls it: "Suddenly it struck me-my God, maybe I am crazy. What's the norm? How can you tell?" When...
Beer from a Bottle. Bebop has been around for seven or eight years, and something of a fad for two, but experts still disagree over what it is, and whether it will last. Gusty, oldtime Blues Singer Chippie Hill says flatly and hopefully that "It won't last. My 16-month-old niece does it when she drinks beer out of her bottle, and does it better than any of them." To the naked ear its shrill cacophony seems anarchistic; on repeated hearings it becomes clear that the players planned it that way. Duke Ellington, now a disc jockey...
Deutsch found New York's Rockland State Hospital, the "Juniper Hill" of The Snake Pit (see CINEMA), one of the best, but even Rockland was 30% overcrowded, with 6,100 patients jammed into space intended for 4,700. "The hospital needed at least twice as many doctors, twice as many nurses, and three times as many attendants to provide adequate care and treatment . . . Often only one attendant watched over two wards for homicidal patients. There weren't nearly enough recreation workers or occupational therapy workers to help Rockland's patients on the road back to mental normalcy...