Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane would not really crash. Newk liked that kind of pitch; early last spring a chiropractor pal tried a little amateur hypnotism and temporarily relieved his arm. Perhaps, the pitcher decided, Edelman could trance him out of all the tensions that sweat up his palms and take the hop off his high hard one in the big innings of a big game...
...free and relaxed, like those of children racing in and out of games. The dancers tie themselves up in little knots and delight in getting out of them gracefully. As the music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden's stunning solo variation and a languorous, sensual pas de deux exquisitely danced by Virginia-born Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell, a talented Negro member of the company. The whole work takes less than 25 minutes, but it unmistakably...
...inside track in the brisk competition for further medium-range jet orders. It will carry 100 to 125 passengers (v. 120 to 150 for the larger DC-8) plus substantial cargo, will be used by United on runs ranging from 400 miles or less to the Chicago-West Coast hop...
...with Hertz Corp., the world's biggest car renter, to form a new company that will rent cars around the globe. The new firm, called Hertz American Express International Ltd., will set up a system whereby a traveler can drive a Hertz car to any U.S. airport, hop a plane, and have another Hertz auto meet him at the terminal abroad. The company will first blanket Europe with rental agencies, then push on to South America and the rest of the world. Eventually, a traveler will be able to rent a car from Aachen to Zanzibar simply by phoning...
...Irving Phillips; music and lyrics by Ernest G. Schweikert and Frank Reardon) has just one real asset: Eddie Foy. He has the twin gifts of perfect stage presence and quiet audience courtship, the jaunty, pinpointed song-and-dance-man skill of the vaudeville era. He knows every last little hop, skip and jump, and nudge, bop and scram; he is master of the soft shoe, the dead pan, the faraway smile. As Rumple, a newspaper-cartoon character in danger of extinction because his creator has lost the power to portray him, he fights for survival with tactics that happily...