Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modest Prince Rainier was quick to disclaim any credit for the bag, which he said had been ready and waiting for him on a pier in Conakry: he had merely transported them, not captured them. But he had many another adventurous tale to tell-of spearfishing in the shark-infested waters off Dakar, of a near-drowning as he shot underwater pictures during a raging Atlantic storm, of a 1,200-mile trek through French Guinea and of the difficulties involved in helping his Negro valet purchase a wife in a native village (price: 200,000 francs...
Landing in Manhattan after a seven-month European concert tour, Peru's multi-octaved Singer Yma Sumac, with her son Charles, 5, in tow, bumped smack into immigration officials who detained her at the pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the "professional jealousy...
...Boardwalk (Sun. 8 p.m., ABC) is telecast from the Steel Pier at Atlantic City, and borrows its format from the Original Amateur Hour. Veteran Paul Whiteman serves as M.C., a panel of celebrities judges the performers, and each week some of the previous winners get a chance to show how much they have improved. Unlike the Amateur Hour, which runs 30 minutes, On the Boardwalk goes on for a full hour. It seems longer...
Seniors, their guests, dates, and parents will leave Lamont Library at 8 p.m. for the annual cruise on the S.S. Boston Belle. Accompanied by a special motorcycle escort provided by the local police, the buses will proceed to the Belle's pier for an evening of water-bound wining and dancing...
...Million Robe. At least a dozen Biblical films are currently slated for production. Warner Bros, has three: 1) The Silver Chalice, with Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance and "a cast of thousands" in Novelist Thomas B. Costain's story about the cup Christ used at the Last Supper; 2) Land of the Pharaohs, which was written for the movies by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner; 3) Daniel and the Woman of Babylon, which has not yet been cast...