Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Paris may lack, the outside world assumes it has one thing in abundance: charm. Not so, says one Marcel Ranville, who has found it necessary and profitable to run a charm school in Paris and launch a campaign for greater "amiability." Some weeks ago, the Ministers of Public Health, Education, Commerce & Industry enthusiastically jumped on Ranville's amiability bandwagon, formed an official committee to better "the day to day relationships of the Parisian people." By last week Parisian relationships were just about as sweet as a midinette's smile...
...morning before dawn, the Princeton prepared to launch a regular flight of night hecklers-propeller-driven Corsairs and Skyraiders with special radar equipment for night flying. It was supposed to be a routine operation. At 3:30 a.m., under a tomb-black sky, the flight deck throbbed and shuddered as pilots warmed up their engines. From the bull horns came the command: "White flag. Catapult planes." A lighted wand in the catapult officer's hand described a series of red circles in the darkness (the signal to the pilot to turn up his engine), then swooped down. With...
When Matthew's leave was up, sympathetic superior officers cut through red tape and shipped Benita back to Tokyo. There, British headquarters felt less benign, announced that it would launch a prompt investigation of Mrs. Lassetter's escapade. But neither Benita nor the Fusiliers were much abashed. "What are they going to investigate?" asked one young officer. "It was purely a family matter...
...those three years, Toast of the Town has also scored some notable firsts. Margaret Truman made her TV debut on the show. So did Bob Hope, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Sam Levenson, Faye Emerson, Vaughn Monroe. Charles Laughton used the show to launch the Bible readings that are now a staple of the lecture circuit; Gloria Swanson publicly revealed her belief in God, and Hedy Lamarr renounced the role of seductress long enough to sing RockaBye, Baby exactly as she does to her own children...
...from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...