Word: illness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SOLIDAY Wood River, Ill...
David Goldbogen, brother of the late Cinemogul Mike Todd, last week had an eye-boggling idea for dressing up the plot in Forest Park, Ill., where Mike's body lies. The proposal: a 9-ft.-tall, 2-ton, $8,000 marble statue of filmdom's Oscar, which Mike won for Around the World in 80 Days (still busy at the box offices). No inscription would mar the marble, said David, adding thoughtfully: "We would want to keep the memorial simple." But at week's end Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences warned that...
Lord Beaverbrook holds other grudges against Mountbatten. He blames him for planning the ill-starred World War II raid on Dieppe, in which 3,369 of Beaver-brook's fellow Canadians were casualties. But the feeling goes deeper. Noel Coward's wartime movie In Which We Serve was built around his friend Mountbatten's own heroism as commander of the destroyer Kelly. Beaverbrook blames Mountbatten for not getting Coward to delete a shot of drowning sailors, in which a copy of the Daily Express floats by, with its famed 1939 headline: THERE WILL BE NO WAR THIS...
...bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time to see Emoto vanish out the plane door, to fall 2,300 ft. into the Inland...
...gravitational field. To put a satellite on a nearby orbit around the earth takes only about 25% less speed than the escape velocity (25,000 m.p.h.) that will free it from the earth. All the Russians needed to do was to increase slightly the power of Sputnik Ill's launching rockets or to reduce its final weight. U.S. failure to reach the moon was mainly due to the insufficient power of the launching vehicles. For the U.S. shots to succeed on their lesser thrust, every bit of sophisticated and delicate apparatus had to work perfectly, and this...