Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Statistics prove that the Committee on Admissions still considers scholastic ability of paramount importance. The average I.Q. of the entering freshman class has risen each of the nine years that Mrs. Eliot was director...
...beleaguered Warsaw fighters, then land their planes on Soviet territory (because of the long distance from Western air bases). Stalin refused permission. Churchill was so angry that he considered threatening a cutoff of the Allied supply convoys to Russia. But the needs of the Grand Alliance were still paramount and he did not "propose this drastic step." Yet Churchill adds: "It might have been effective, because we were dealing with men in the Kremlin who were governed by calculation and not by emotion . . . The cutting off of the convoys at this critical moment . . . would perhaps have bulked in their minds...
Greece's ubiquitous King Paul and Queen Frederika turned up in Hollywood, where they dropped in on the White Christmas set at Paramount. Stars Vera-Ellen, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney greeted Their Majesties with a little ceremony in which they puffed out the candles on a large, dummy birthday cake. Amused but confused, the King observed: "It's not my birthday...
Crosley got into the color TV race last week. It has been licensed to manufacture the "Chromatron" color tube invented by Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence and developed by Paramount Pictures Corp.'s TV labs. Crosley said it already has a pilot line turning out the new tube on a limited scale, and promised a wide range of advantages for its new product: large, rectangular pictures, excellent color definition and easy mass production...
...battles a wildcat barehanded and wins. ¶ King of the Khyber Rifles (20th Century-Fox), also in CinemaScope, stars Tyrone Power in India, has been called an "eastern western." ¶ Garden of Evil (20th Century-Fox), with Gary Cooper in CinemaScope, is "a western in Mexico." ¶ Red Garters (Paramount) is a tongue-in-cheek musical western using abstract settings. The villain wears black and rides a black horse; the hero and his horse are both in white. ¶ Johnny Guitar (Republic) stars Joan Crawford as a sort of female Shane who shoots it out with Two-Gun Mercedes McCambridge...