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With a sarse of leaden...
Overhead, under a leaden sky, three flights of F9F Panther jets wheeled around the Princeton in perfect formation. Over bull horns on the flight deck came the air officer's command: "White flag, land planes." The landing signal officer, from his screened perch astern on the flight deck, guided the first plane in with two orange paddles. It sailed in, tailhook down, picked up an arresting wire and stopped. His hook released from the wire by a scurrying, green-jerseyed deck man, the pilot taxied his craft forward, folding its wings as he went. One by one, the blue...
...show sizzled with much of Allen at his best-knife-edge thrusts at the income-tax men, rival comedians, and pompous executives. It also fizzled occasionally with some of Allen at his worst, e.g., a leaden slapstick routine kidding TV consultants. By the time he was ready to wind up the program with a familiar traveling salesman version of Carmen, Allen had brought on Guest Stars Sono Osato, Risë Stevens and Monty Woolley, had put on half a dozen sly lampoons and proved himself as fine a mugger as he is an ad-libber...
...Leaden skies and a sodden downpour washed out Wellesley's annual hoop race yesterday. The downhill event was rescheduled for 7 a.m. tomorrow, weather permitting...
...scene. The blimp, when he saw it, carried a Goodyear sign; he substituted Socony's flying red horse "because I thought it was a nicer shape." The baby's head in the poster he enlarged considerably, and embellished with sinister rips. By its size and its leaden slumber, the baby dominated the picture; he might have been dreaming it all, and he might have represented Koerner himself...