Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ought to know how to do the Lambeth Walk." Afloat or ashore, England expects every man to do his duty. For the first time in a quiet but crowded life, Sir Roger Mellor Makins, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, ate lavender-pink potato salad and danced the Lambeth Walk...
...Colonel Michael McCoy, who commands the only combat-ready all-jet bomber wing in the U.S. Air Force, flew one of his sleek, swept-wing B-47s from the U.S. to Britain last April in a record 5 hr. 38 min. Last week, when his 306th Medium Bombardment Wing, battle-loaded with dummy atom bombs, set out for a 90-day tour in England, Colonel McCoy bent no throttles. Leading the first formation of 15 planes from Limestone, Maine to Fairford, Gloucestershire, the colonel took 5 hr. 53 min. to make the crossing...
...Albert Hall; still another, Lord Seaton, led the charge which routed the Old Guard at Waterloo. The school that these men attended changed little over the years. In matters of custom and costume, it was much the same in the more recent days of Critic Middleton Murry and Actor Michael Wilding as it had been back...
...Michael T. Chambers '55 of Adams House was named junior heavy crew manager for 1954 as a result of this year's managerial competition, while Joseph D. Buckley '55 of Dunster House was selected as the 1954 Junior manager of the 150 pound crew. Nicholas J. Coolidge '54 of Eliot House moves into the position of next year's varsity heavies manager, and George D. Langdon '54 of Winthrop House into the position of 1954 manager of the 150 pound crews...
...picture, Landfall has remarkably little action. Instead, it concentrates on characterization, and its people, from admirals to air-raid wardens, are al ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film...