Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie is hardly more fortunate in its casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill...
...tedious bore. In Hiding, selected as the most popular story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948, is perhaps the real tipoff on the new trend: it is a fairly quiet story of a psychiatrist's effort to keep a fantastically high-I.Q. teen-ager on an even keel...
...sometimes lead pilots to mistake one side of the approach lane for the other. It substitutes a single row of horizontal light bars leading to the runway centerline. Each light bar is long enough to serve as an artificial horizon, telling the pilot if his plane is on even keel. At a distance of 1,000 feet from the runway, five bars abreast make an extra-wide horizon...
...future in farming, young Earl learned to be an accountant by mail. But he put his horse sense to good use when he became comptroller of Loeser's department store in Brooklyn in 1928. He revamped Loeser's antiquated accounting system, helped keep it on an even keel when the Wall Street crash swamped many a retail store, became its $50,000-a-year president in 1931. Three years later, he was boss of Hahn Department Stores, a shaky nationwide 57-unit chain...
Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists...