Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Borgnine, a smile on his face and a meat cleaver in his hand. The man who proved, in Marty, that butchers are nice people, was being spurred on by throngs of movie fans and pressagents and a group of scantily clad models with placards announcing, "I Love Marty." Reporters, newsreel cameramen and photographers were on hand, and two representatives of the Santa Monica Bay District Meatcutters Union, Local 587 (the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, A.F.L.-C.I.O.), presented Borgnine with a gold urn trophy. His portrayal of Marty, its inscription said, "reveals the meatcutters of America...
...fixture in the Globe city room: his son, Joe Jr., 32, also is a crime specialist. Last week, while his father was back on the Brink's beat, young Dinneen drew the other top current crime assignment, a murder trial in Plymouth. Another son, Robert, 30, is a newsreel cameraman-who covered the same trial for TV. Says Dinneen: "We are keeping it in the family...
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Stevenson arrived ten minutes late, stepped down the aisle and sat down quietly at the desk. This was television and newsreel day. His staff had informed reporters that the candidate would make his statement for the cameras, but would answer no questions until a press conference the next day. Stevenson placed a typed copy of his statement on the lectern and accepted a glass of water (on his standing order, it contained no ice) from an aide. He looked uncertainly at Radio-TV Executive Leonard Reinsch, who was directing the show, and asked how much time he had. Director Reinsch...
...longed for a longer ride. One sunup last week, Hackett took off from London Airport, got a course from his navigator, Peter Moneypenny, and aimed his twin-jet Canberra bomber westward. Seven hours and 30 minutes later he put down at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. While newsreel cameras whirled, Hackett and Moneypenny spent 35 minutes on the ground, getting themselves and their plane refueled. Aided by tail winds, the Canberra arrived back in London in a record 6 hr. 17 min. The total elapsed time (14 hr. 21 min.) was no great shakes in these jet days...