Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear cool day in 1926, a nine-year-old boy in short pants watched a Swallow biplane circle and land at his hometown airfield in Boise, Idaho. It was the first plane he had ever seen close up. It was also the start of the first permanent scheduled airline service in the U.S. More than half a century later, TIME'S Jerry Hannifin finally realized his childhood dream by flying a restored Swallow. He has logged 2,550 hours in the air as a pilot, flying planes that ranged from a J-3 Cub to the Air Force...
...play has eight characters, the new one nine; and of these, six turn up in both. The new version sticks somewhat more closely to the novel in terms of plot. And, in these days of high production costs, it has the advantage of convincingly restricting the action to Dr. Seward's study, whereas the old play requires three separate sets...
...success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine previous films. For the crew it's an ideal summer frolic amidst flint hedges and yellow gladioli, and it leads to a little pastoral reflection. Says Hepburn: "First God made England, Ireland and Scotland. That's when he corrected his mistakes and made Wales...
...enfant terrible of French letters whose precocious first novel, Bonjour Tristesse (1954), was so successful that it enabled her to adopt a reckless life-style of expensive fast cars, gambling and good whisky. True, true. But Sagan has also found time to spin off twelve more novels and nine plays. Her latest dramatic effort, scheduled for a Paris opening in the autumn, is called It's Nice Day and Night and is laced with familiar themes: an adulterous affair, alienation, the triumph of good over evil. Of course, work demands some reward, and so, with the play completed...
...fact that Pete Rose was hitting so consistently came as a surprise to no one, least of all Pete Rose. "When you think about it, it's strange I never had a long streak going before," he said after tying Holmes' record. "I've had nine 200-hit seasons. You'd think I'd have put some of those hits back to back." In fact, he has, putting together hitting streaks of 25 and 22 games and two stretches...