Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME has often done atmosphere stories on how the country celebrates the Fourth of July holiday: the picnics, the band concerts in town parks, death on crowded highways, and sweltering fun on packed beaches. However, the story of what we celebrate is often lost in how we do it. This year seemed a good time to pause and recall how it all started...
...bunk" of white-wall-tired family automobiles whanging over the endless, shimmering, concrete slabs of four-lane highways. Occasionally, the rhythm is disturbed by the screech and crash of shiny sedans meeting in bone-shattering collision (the National Safety Council's estimated traffic death toll for the holiday: 290). Cities lie in Sunday silence...
When the victory news hit Nepal, where 37 year-old Tenzing was born, the government proposed that May 29 should henceforth be a national holiday, known as Tenzing Day. In India, where he lives (in a Darjeeling slum), a public subscription was opened to build him a new home, and when he and Hillary arrived at New Delhi Airport this week, 3,000 fans burst the police cordons and swept him a quarter mile down the runway, shouting "Tenzing Zindabad!" (Long Live Tenzing...
Matter of Costs. Aside from taxes, producers have their own reasons for making pictures overseas. Some movies (African Queen, Moulin Rouge, Roman Holiday) need authentic foreign settings. By making pictures in Europe, a few of the big producers, e.g., MGM, have put their blocked foreign currency to work. Many independent producers, finding it hard to raise money in the U.S., have stretched their dollars further abroad. And such unions as Roy Brewer's Film Council (TIME, April 27) have helped boost film costs skyhigh; labor costs overseas are anywhere from 20% to 50% below the U.S., and foreign sets...
...fans who are puzzled by Eddy's disappearance from cinema, radio and TV, Eddy has the answers. For one thing, his last two romantic pictures, Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) and Northwest Outpost (1947), were box-office flops. "The movie people told me that the cycle of light romantic operas was at an end," he says. "The war had made people want realism." Nevertheless, he felt that Naughty Marietta, his first of nine films with Jeanette MacDonald, had the right formula. "We should have made more obvious sequels to that one-such as Son of Naughty Marietta...