Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gone! All gone! New Englanders, it is true, will get a taste of traditional glare and excitement when Independence Day rolls around this week-the "Horribles," grotesquely costumed children, will parade along a few village streets, and some towns will light big bonfires at midnight on the Third (a pile of barrels a hundred feet high awaits the torch on Salem's Gallows Hill). But the U.S. as a whole will have a much more sterile diet-packaged fireworks shows in city parks and packaged patriotic sentiments on television...
...Actress Diana Barrymore, which reminded oldtimers of the antics of her late father John Barrymore. Because "my husband bores me," Diana began her evening by pub-crawling with an off-duty policeman ("He has a wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut up, don't be so Hemingway-feudal' "). After two fights ("I said, 'Boys, don't kill anyone in the apartment...
...amid a crisscross of ring ropes. "You scare me out of ten years' growth," Baby says when he sees it. "You want to get me killed." But it is Baby who does the killing, without intending it, in his next fight; and the splatter of headlines in the midnight papers about the man he killed in the prize ring puts Baby in a raw mood. He turns up at Laine's apartment and, when she resists this time, rapes...
Robot Announcer. California's radio station KEAR at San Mateo plans to go on the air this week without an announcer from 6 p.m. to midnight. Instead, KEAR will use a new long-playing tape playback device developed by Ampex Electric Corp. of Redwood City, Calif. Spot announcements and commercials are recorded on one tape, music on another; the announcements are cut in automatically, thus permitting KEAR to operate with only an engineer on duty. Cost of two tape and recording units: approximately...
...President tried out his idea on his advisers. Then, after dinner, he put in a transatlantic call to Sir Winston Churchill. It was towards midnight in London, but the old Prime Minister was still up, and delighted at the proposal. He suggested Bermuda as a conference site, agreed that late June (after the coronation, and after an Eisenhower trip to the Midwest) would be fine. Eisenhower phoned Mayer, who was pleased too, although he dropped out of the picture the next day when his government was overthrown...