Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AIRLINE STORM is raging over the Civil Aeronautics Board's preliminary decision to knock two Alaskan airlines out of their lucrative Stateside business. CAB has decided not to renew temporary permits for routes flown by Pacific Northern and Alaska Airlines between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest (43,013 passengers in 1953), letting Pan American and Northwest Airlines fly the routes alone. But the move has brought such a howl that CAB may be forced to reconsider...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Stanley Donen and Michael Kidd knock off a randandy of a musical, the best since An American in Paris; with Howard Keel, Jane Powell (TIME, July...
...obvious haymakers (The Caine Mutiny, The Egyptian, Sabrina, Country Girl) hit hard. A couple of Columbia's bread-and-butter farces (It Should Happen to You and Phffft!) made Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon a comic staple in the neighborhood theaters. In Knock on Wood, Danny Kaye renewed his lease on the adjective "incomparable," and with Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, the year's best thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock held his title as the world's foremost goose'esh-peddler...
Eventually he holes up in his flat, dreading Olga's knock, which one day comes, along with a final, heartbroken question: " 'Why has it all been ruined...
...their area with a "hometown" thoroughness no New York paper can match, e.g., Long Island's tabloid Newsday (TIME, Sept. 13). Not long ago, Captain Joe's versatile daughter Alicia Patterson, boss of Newsday, told a New York publisher: "If you come out here, we'll knock hell...