Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary McElroy, 54, who has long yearned to float back to Procter & Gamble (his last salary there: $285,000) to pick up the Cheerful chairmanship and rescue his bobbing stock options, re-evaluated his stand in the light of Quarles's death, said: "I will certainly be here in December." In fact, he will probably stay on the job until around February 1960, help present the defense budget to Congress...
...London, Buckingham Palace moved with the speed of light to scotch rumors that the Duke of Edinburgh might invite Adamski around to see his Queen: "The royal family has decided that it cannot entertain Mr. Adamski or his ideas...
...story falls into the predictable triangular pattern, which soon resolves into the predictable eternal question: Which boy will get the girl? In this instance, the answer is intended to answer the race question, but since Actor Belafonte's skin seems just about as light as Actor Ferrer's, the audience may justifiably wonder if the question itself is not almost academic. Anyway, black boy gets white girl-or seems to. But then in the confusing finish (which was reshot after a big front-office foofaraw), all three wander off together hand in hand-with the girl...
Gnoli's strength is double-edged: he knows how to represent what he sees sharply and solidly; also he knows how to design. Light and darkness, tension and repose, surface textures and deep space all interplay with the stories his pictures tell...
...separated from his wife), and a lady with thick ankles and coils of auburn hair who strongly resembled Aimee. Back home at the Temple, Aimee met the attack of the lawmen by crying that it was simply another battle in "the age-old fight between the children of light and the people of darkness." But the outraged evangelist was formally charged with "conspiracy to com mit acts injurious to public morals." Her flock stayed ferociously loyal as the case was tried on the front pages and wound its way in and out of court...