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Word: outdoors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days before many of the Quo Vadis staff were to leave for Italy, Peck's eye puffed up. MGM, which needed every bit of the bright Italian summer for outdoor scenes in Rome, feared that he would miss the July 1 deadline. Last week the studio bowed to the fateful intricacy of its own schedule, and put the Roman invasion off to May 1, 1950. When Peck bounced out of the hospital, having lost only two days of shooting on the Fox lot (at the cost of a mere $40,000), M-G-M was already a prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quo Vadis, M-G-M? | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

After 42 dark weeks, Washington's hungry theatergoers snapped up a morsel-a one-night stand of Judith Anderson in Medea, played in the outdoor Sylvan Theater at the base of the Washington Monument. Actors' Equity would still not permit its players to perform where Negroes were excluded from the audience, and the capital's only playhouse, the National, still balked at such terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Night Stand in Washington | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...outdoor theater, Actress Anderson had to howl down the throb of low-flying planes for an unsegregated audience of 10,000, probably the largest ever to see Medea. Total receipts, for seats in camp chairs or on the grassy slopes: more than $16,000. Six blocks away, the National, still obstinately grinding out minor movies and losing money, was half empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Night Stand in Washington | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...born (1892) in Coytesville, N J., of Dutch stock. When he was a baby, his family moved to Florida, where his father was a pioneer railroad promoter and financier. He had a healthy, uneventful outdoor childhood, played football as a halfback at West Point (classmates remember him particularly as being "good on the defensive"), was graduated 92nd out of 168 in the star-studded class of 1915, whose roster included names like Ike Eisenhower (class standing: 61) and Omar Bradley (44). In World War I, he went to France as an infantry major. Between wars, he taught infantry tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...they run as swiftly as they did last Saturday in the Stadium, Jaakko Mikkola's team has a good chance to beat the Indians for the 24th time in 25 outdoor dual meets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Squad Faces Green In Meet at Hanover Today | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

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