Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt's King Farouk, who loves flashy cars (he owns a flock of red & black limousines), planned to add a utilitarian touch to his collection: he ordered twelve red jeeps, four for general work around the palace grounds, eight equipped with chrome bumpers, red leather seats, white metal wheels and fire sirens, to escort his personal...
...photography is excellent. Music, throughout the picture, is wisely held to a minimum; in most of the outdoor shots and in the final chase, there is none. Thus unencumbered, Director Bruce Humberstone has created intense excitement out of beating hooves, panting horses, long, treacherous silences, heart-stopping squeaks of leather and the sinister scuffling of men stalking each other through the ruined fort...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 42, hell-for-leather socialite horsewoman; and Dr. E. Cooper Person Jr., 38, surgery professor; she for the second time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay-"Jock"- Whitney, now married to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt), he for the first; in Upperville...
...this juncture the pundits have pretty much had their say. From now on until the Republican nominee is chosen, 'the journalist's job is not only to record the events that occur but also to tell how they came about. That takes considerable doing-and shoe leather, for which, as in the case of good detective work, there is sometimes no substitute...
...midst of wealthy suburban Wallingford (twelve miles southwest of Philadelphia), is a long way in time & space from the Lancashire hill where Fox saw his vision of the future Religious Society of Friends. The gently rugged founder of Quakerism, known to his age as "the man in the leather breeches," might have found Pendle Hill's four spacious stone houses, its 15 acres of trees, lawns and gardens strangely remote from the round of jails, beatings and death which was the regular portion of early Quakers. The testimonies of Pendle Hill's morning meetings for worship might have...