Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best actress: Newcomer Audrey Hepburn, for her princess in Paramount's Roman Holiday (TIME, Sept...
...respite was brief indeed. Next morning he had time for a golf lesson for David and a quick 18 holes with son John, before the nation's business engulfed him again. For the rest of his holiday, except for brief interludes with the family, Ike's program called for hard work. He and his aides were busy with the last-minute details of the new Republican program for the nation, to be delivered to Congress next week. When he returns to Washington next week, the President will have the State of the Union Message in final form...
...Wangaehu River. As the nine-car train crossed over the Wangaehu Bridge, underpinnings weakened by the surge of water buckled and sagged. Five cars dropped into the river, dragging the engine with them. A sixth teetered drunkenly on the edge of the broken bridge and finally tumbled off. The holiday passengers were plunged into a swirl of water, silt and crazily bounding boulders. One of the carriages went somersaulting for 2½ miles down the swollen river. The dead: 155. Christmas broadcasts throughout New Zealand were canceled to permit reading the lists of those who had been saved...
...long interval between is filled with an uninspired but dogged probing of the personalities involved. Kantor's wordy persistence is partially rewarded. Joan Lorring emerges as an earnest simpleton who so yearns for freedom that she risks her life in return for a brief holiday from jail. Lloyd Bridges painfully grows in stature from a conniving cop to a man ready to count his world well lost for love. But, as often happens in the theater, it is Villain Gregory with his unrepentant, double-dealing philosophy who comes most alive on the stage: the only unconvincing note...
...year-Shane, The Robe-showed up on a few other "best" lists. The National Board of Review picked MGM's Julius Caesar as the No. 1 film. The remainder of the national board's top ten: Shane, From Here to Eternity, Martin Luther, Lili, Roman Holiday, Stalag 17, The Little Fugitive, Mogambo, The Robe...