Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brandt's case the CARE package costs $12.50. The package has to go through the Berlin air-lift...
...Laurence Olivier, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Muir Mathieson conducting; Victor, 6 sides). In addition to Laurence Olivier's fine soliloquizing, music lovers can hear on this album how good movie music can be. English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...
...easy it would have been for the Crimson to split wide open in the first half when passer Jimmy Noonan and spinning fullback Paul Shafer hobbled to the Harvard dressing room. Here was the problem Art Valpey had to solve. Minus a passer (Kenary and Roche could hardly lift their arms above their heads), he had to figure out a way to gain on the ground against a Yale defense that was immediately rigged to stop such an attack...
Whilst appreciating your very human account of the splendid service the U.S. Air Force is giving Berliners through the air lift [TIME, Oct. 18] . . . I was disappointed at your failure to make any comment upon the equally determined efforts of the Royal Air Force...
...great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ... It is refreshing to read again & again your words "... Westbrook Pegler (whose continued toleration is all the proof anyone should need that the U.S. press is free...