Word: peering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marion was a healthy, husky kid, a dutiful son and a student who liked sports better than study. In high school he was unwillingly drafted into a student play, to give a rawboned caricature of a British peer. The experience rid him of the hated name Marion by capping him with the slightly suspect nickname "Duke." It did not attract him in any way to the acting profession. After graduating from high school, he joined several other U.S.C. footballers who were working as part-time stagehands at the Fox Studio. And the more young Morrison saw of the studios...
Cameo Theater (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC). First of a three-part presentation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, with Douglass Montgomery, Claire Luce...
...sets and create a genuine illusion of curving space." There should also be a separate property building connected to half a dozen subsidiary studios and a large back lot for outdoor sets. Some of the twelve to 14 cameras will fly overhead on electrically operated cranes; others will peer through trap doors in the studio floor for ant's-eye glimpses of the action. "With a setup like that," says Liebman, "we can put on a 'live' TV movie in an hour...
...officers . . .she could sell off all our ships-of-war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'University'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants, and she could pardon all offenders...
...MANY a peer of England is more anciently British than the royal family. The first of the present ruling house was George I (1714), a Hanoverian. After Victoria's death and her son's accession to the throne, the line became known as Saxe-Coburg; in World War I King George V changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg to Windsor. Queen Elizabeth II is the fourth and probably the last Windsor to sit on the throne: three-year-old Prince Charles, the heir-apparent, is a member of the House of Mountbatten, his father's family...