Word: previewing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane pulled up in the glare of newsreel lights at Hickam Air Force Base at Honolulu, twelve hours and six minutes later. There were fast handshakes in the confusion of the midnight welcome, and next day, on a forty mile parade, the city of Honolulu gave General MacArthur a preview of the civic receptions to come-including more applause and cheers than had greeted Harry Truman on the way to his Wake Island meeting with MacArthur six months before...
When Hollywood made Viva Villa in 1934 with Wallace Beery as the famous border bandit, Mexicans liked it fine. After a preview of the film life of the hard-riding, hard-wenching revolutionary, President Abelardo Rodriguez asked only for deletion of scenes that showed Villa drunk. The changes made, the movie made Mexican box-office history...
...Best. As an Olympic preview,* this year's Holmenkollen again proved one thing: the Norwegians are still the world's best. On his second jump, Hoel was a marvel of consistency. He matched his first effort to the foot (226) in distance, to the decimal point in style. Neither Thrane nor Bradl came close. Hoel's winning score: 225, nine more than Thrane, for the biggest margin in Hol-menkollen history. Champion Bjornstad was seventh...
Never averse to a free meal, two members of this newspaper took off last Friday morning to visit a special preview and press luncheon for a new English' movie, "The Chance of a Lifetime...
...will long-suffering husband Sullivan take her back? The whole skillfully effected sense of the movie seems to rebel at that notion, but the preview audiences evidently did not. Co-Producer Bruce Manning and Director Curtis Bernhart, who wrote the script together, compromise. They have the taste to end the picture on a muted, tentative note, but not the courage to keep the ending from clashing with their theme...