Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Melville Cooper, Jack Hollander and Guy Sorel have the proper slickness for the evil president, prospector and baron. The large number of supporting roles provide several fine vignettes: Tom Bosley does fine double duty as the double-talking broker and the sad, flower-loving sewer man; Ned Murphy actually plays the guitar as the street-singer who knows only the first two lines of his song; and Lance Cunard is a comic Dr. Jadin, who believes that "as the foot goes, so goes...
Mayor Dilworth even kept an eye peeled for traffic problems, reported pointedly from London that drivers move and stop "promptly on signal, automobiles stay in their proper lanes, and you see no weaving or cutting in or out." Concluded His Honor: "It is just another example of what decent observance of the law, and of regard for one another, can accomplish...
...hens' eggs. He cuts a hole in the shell and exposes the embryo, which in fresh-laid eggs is about as big as the head of a pin. Even at this early stage he knows what parts will develop into the head, wings or legs. By damaging the proper cells with a hair-thin beam of X rays, he can make the chick into a Cyclops. He can prevent wings from growing, or he can make the legs fuse together into a kind of tail...
...title depends largely on Jones and his pitching colleagues in one of the best mound staffs in the majors. By the word of the experts, pitching was the fatal flaw of the Cards at season's start. But Jones has lately found the proper groove (his season record: 7-3), and Larry Jackson has a nifty 2.83 earned-run average and a 10-4 record. And, best of all, the Cardinals are getting a buoyant boost from their pair of bonus babies plucked off an Oklahoma cotton farm: Von and Lindy McDaniel. Von, only 18, has won four, lost...
Fire Down Below (Warwick; Columbia) rises high and could have soared higher but for a curious fact: its proper beginning seems uncomfortably wedged in its middle. Two of the three principals disappear in the midst of the story for half an hour of screen time. The curious result is a fast-paced adventure yarn laced around a taut interlude of high drama...