Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best legal manner, the staid old law firm of Root, Ballantine, Harlan, Bushby & Palmer harrumphed out a letter. It went to John K. Hill, an innkeeper in Center Ossipee, N.H. "It has come to the attention of our client, Hotels Statler Co., Inc., that you are using for your own inn the term 'The Statler of the Sticks' ... It is contrary to the policy of the Statler Co. to permit the use of its name...
...Promise Me ... In Detroit, Mrs. Mary Kapetansky won a divorce on her cross complaint that, among other things, her husband had fallen down on his pre-wedding promises to 1) move to Detroit's fashionable Palmer Woods, 2) buy her a mink coat...
...perceptive camera work helps to knit together "Thunder Rock's" disorganized incidents; so does some unobtrusive and sensitive music. And the flashbacks themselves are wonderfully paced and staged and acted, showing the careful attention to detail that has turned up in so many subsequent English films. Michael Redgrave, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, and the whole group of minor characters are mutually responsible for the fine quality of the acting. "Thunder Rock" has an unhappy pre-disposition to preach, but it is so well-finished that it gets away with...
...fraternity men who have gathered around battered uprights to sing these words in beery self-pity, the news from Britain would bring its own nostalgia. Last week, 34 years after U.S. Songwriter Jack ("Pops") Palmer had turned out his hard-boiled little ditty, Silver Dollar had rolled right out of the keg-party class to the top of the British hit parade...
Songwriter Palmer, 50, whose last song was this spring's You Dreamer You, had gotten used to thinking of his Silver Dollar as a rumpus-room standard, but no bestseller. Says he: "I am as surprised as anyone...