Word: piper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club currently has six men with the requisite commercial licenses, and hopes to add six more in the very near future. It will rent its planes (Piper Tripacers) from the East Coast Aviation Service, and will operate out of Bedford Airport...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The Hollywood Pied Piper's new Story of Robin Hood, filmed in authentic English underbrush with an all-English cast headed by Richard Todd as the harmless Hood. First of a two-part legend...
...stay on the road along which everything has already been said.'' In an effort to avoid that fate, he has produced such bizarre works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto dressed in a boxer...
...year frost came in. Her personal story is romantic enough to make Ouida-lady laureate of the plush paradise-blush for modesty. It is offset by the tough self-knowledge of an aristocracy that called a pretty fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France. After censoring a letter home from a soldier, he recorded that the man had written: "A lot of ships were needed to bring the British Army to France...
...they write. With his 22nd novel, Veteran Nevil Shute again proves himself one of the best practitioners of Group 2. Shute's surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often still there by the last...