Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Real grass was dried, powdered, and sprinkled over the University courtyards and Charles River Banks. Over 1000 trolley cars and automobiles jam the streets in their customary inextricable tangle. For days, the artists struggled to paint trolley rails, but couldn't make the two-dimensional lines realistic. Finally they hit upon the idea of using shellacked threads, and finished the track-laying in half an hour...
...U.S.N. (364 pp.; Holt; $3.95). President Eisenhower's naval aide, 36, topflight submariner and author of the best account to date of undersea combat (Submarine!), has now written his first novel. It is a war novel, with a vengeance. Ed Richardson runs into just about every heart-stopping jam that a Medal-of-Honor-winning pigboat skipper can get into and out of in the battle against Japan. While ripping up shipping all around the Western Pacific, he tangles with "Bungo Pete," the cunning old Japanese ex-submariner whose beaten-up destroyer guards the southern approaches to Japan...
...TIME also regrets the traffic jam, but can accept responsibility only for the inventory of Novelist Marquand's garage...
...good Cole Porter lyric. As Ninotchka, Cinemactress Hildegarde Neff is exotic and pleasing enough to get by without a voice; as Ninotchka's Hollywood agent of a beau, oldtime Cinemactor Don Ameche has an excellent voice and everything else to match. And late in the evening, a Moscow jam session achieves a gay abandon that the show, by then, needs as badly as the U.S.S.R. does...
...nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with a soft center"); the inevitable cold turkey of a head nurse ("You will not walk upon any part of the floor that has recently been polished") and a ruddy great bear ("Sister, how in Hades do you expect me to operate with this jam spreader?") of a head surgeon (James Robertson Justice...