Word: newsreeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice tee, as hundreds of newsreel photographers, sportswriters and well-wishers crowded around, the Babe smacked out one of her trademarks: a 250-yd. drive. She grinned: "Man, if I hit it any better it would kill me." With only three full practice rounds behind her, the Babe started out. Husband George was full of forebodings: "I don't expect her to do too good. She's prepared for any disappointment...
...Malta became vexed when its Prime Minister was assigned a place with representatives of colonies, instead of in Westminster Abbey with the other Commonwealth Prime Ministers. After the Maltese Assembly voted to cancel all coronation festivities on the island, and Maltese cinema audiences began booing newsreel pictures of the Queen and Philip, Prime Minister Churchill set things aright by assuring Malta's Prime Minister a place with the other P.M.s...
...race, so heavily publicized, one important problem that must be taken care of is what to do with the press. Usually, places are assigned in various launches to the correspondents of the major papers, but the W.R.A. provided one barge to accommodate all the judges, 20 sportswriters, four newsreel and over 20 still cameras, and the TV camera. With one Navy lieutenant who knew next to nothing about crew races supervising, the barge was a maelstrom...
...Desert Rats is at its best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ammunition dump, Rommel's tanks attacking under cover of a sandstorm). Unusual linguistic touch: Actor Mason, who spoke flawless English as Rommel in The Desert Fox, this time affects a rich Teutonic accent...
...Having seen your March 16 picture, I paid more than usual attention when the whole incident was revealed to me in some belated newsreel down here. I may inform you that the duke took over The Struggle of the Coat at the very crucial and correct moment. By stating this fact, I am sure I have won the eternal friendship of the whole royal family...