Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman and brother Roland decided not to deliver any more milk. Dropped because of rising production costs (materials and labor) : deliveries to 2,000-odd rural doorsteps from the Harrimans' commercial dairy in Arden...
When James Mason knocked over his glass toward the end of "Odd Man Out" and saw the reflection of his enemies shouting at him from the suds, he gave a wild cry and sank to the floor. When the sounding brass of Hollywood got around to viewing the foaming beer, they might well have done the same thing, for this scene and the rest of "Odd Man Out" is so consistently above California crop standards as to blanch the stoutest of the film empire. Even the Irish Republican Army would be shaken...
Tryouts for the remaining parts took place yesterday, when some 70-odd candidates, "an unbelievable turnout of acting talent," showed up, Kilty said...
Then American Criminal Investigation agents, tracking down a dozen-odd new U.S. automobiles stolen within recent weeks, became interested. Last week Atanasoff and salesmen were resting from their labors in the Ringstrasse jail. Said Theodore Atanasoff: "I'm just a poor non-Communist lawyer. I've an old mother and father dependent on me. I still don't see how the American military court has jurisdiction, as all the transactions were carried on in the Soviet zone...
...This odd movie is the work of Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carné, who made Children of Paradise (TIME, Nov. 25). Of its fairly unprecedented kind-it is a classical medieval romance on film-it is close to perfection. But it seems unlikely that many U.S. moviegoers will care for it as much as the French critics who voted it the best French film...