Word: propped
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...label your story on New York City in the May 12 issue "Progress Report?" and spend a sophomoric column trying to prop up the phony question mark...
...comic items--dragoons drop their rifles on each other's feet, march in the wrong direction, and traipse through interminable jerky morrices with the female chorus of "twenty lovesick maidens" (some twelve in number). One budding Cantinflas, Kenneth Tiger, is even made to flourish that old gag prop, the rubber sword...
...looked so far away I got lonesome." Aircraft Mechanic Tom Pearson has improved on a standard Bensen design, added a four-bladed propeller, a muffler and ground brakes-an uncommon feature on home-built helicopters. Explains Pearson: "If you haven't got brakes, you have to spin the prop, then jump in the seat quick to keep the beast from running away...
...replacements for some of the 80,000 vehicles used in their cities could be bought earlier, explained Louie Mariani, the predicted upturn in the economy might be nudged along. Jokesters soon gave Mayor Mariani's executive offices a new title: "Municipal Motors Sales Inc., Madman Mariani, Prop." But the joke was on them. Last week letters were pouring in to Mariani-and most of them carried promises to do what he asked...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [Woodfall; Continental). "I'm me and nobody else. Whatever people say I am. that's what I'm not. Because they don't know a bloody thing about me. I'm a six-foot prop that wants a pint o' beer, that's what." With this Teddy-boyish declaration of grog-on-ice independence, the "Saxon Revolt" that is currently burning up the grass roots of British literature breaks out with brawling and exhilarant abandon on the screen. Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his rumbustiously original first novel...