Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just long enough to give him back. When I asked for better publicity, they would say, 'There just isn't any story in you. Now if you were born on the wrong side of the tracks, we could start out with the old torn wallpaper and then pan over to your minklined swimming pool...
Jane Froman's $2,500,000 damage suit against Pan American World Airways for injuries in a 1943 Lisbon crash (TIME, March 23) ended last week. For her crippled leg, Miss Froman got $8,300; for her lost luggage, $750. Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, who had sought $1,000,000 for her own injuries and lost luggage, received $9,580. Jane's ex-husband, Donald Ross, who had asked $100,000, got nothing. The directed verdict gave Plaintiffs Froman and Markoff the maximum allowable under the Warsaw Convention, which sets a ceiling for international air-accident damages, except...
...Kikuyu reserve, where shaven-headed Kikuyu women stagger under headloads that would shatter the spines of pack mules, and the closely clustered thatched mud huts look like shaggy beehives. Then you come to the edge of the escarpment, and the Rift Valley lies below you like a giant frying pan. Over to the right, the Aberdare range begins to loom, blue and smoky, and that's where the Mau Mau gangs lurk, and strike from. There are no east-west roads across the Aberdares. You have to go round them. And that's where the sprawling white farms...
...Peter Pan. Walt Disney's lighthearted feature-length cartoon adaptation of J M Barne's fantasy (TIME...
...Newton commuter has won 28 consecutive dual matches in the 123 pound division and has never been defeated in this type of competition. He also won the National AAU championship his sophomore year, was an alternate on the 1951 Pan-American team, a member of the U.S.A. squad which toured Japan during the summer of 1951, and fourth in the tryouts for the 1952 Olympic team...