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...face with make-up (not, initially, without a struggle), hung a grey curtain"behind him, and lighted him with magenta spots. But the general's big new dark-rimmed spectacles were his own idea-"If you have to wear glasses," Winston Churchill once told him, "make a prop out of them...
...those muscle books and send for all of Atlas' muscle courses and all the gadgets. He used to use me to practice his wrestling holds. I was sort of double-jointed and gave poor Soapy a bad time, I'm afraid. He would prop the book up in front of him and then get a horrible armlock on me. I would wiggle out of it, and Soapy would check the book again and mutter, 'I'm sure that is the right hold, Hank. Let's try it again...
...Prop Deer. Hepburn's early assaults on Broadway were easily repulsed. She was fired from the casts of Death Takes a Holiday and The Animal Kingdom. Critics then, as now, disagreed about her talent. Kate says: "One lot said I was a lovely, graceful young creature. Another lot said I was gawky, hoydenish, gaunt, like something escaped from a tomb." In The Warrior's Husband, she was fired and rehired before the show reached Broadway. The play was a hit and so was Kate. As Antiope, an Amazon queen, Kate came hurtling down a ramp, lugging a prop...
Hurry-Up Job. The bomber started out 3½ years ago as a makeshift project. Five Boeing engineers had gone to Wright Field to show the Air Force plans for an intercontinental turbo-prop bomber on which Boeing had been working for two years. But the Air Force turned it down, said it wanted a long-range, all-jet bomber. The engineers holed up in a hotel room for two days and, using a bureau top as a drawing board and balsa wood from model airplane kits, put together a rough model of the kind of jet bomber Boeing could...
...more coming in, and prospects looked the best in years. Mills which had been in the red were in the black again. Last week the Joint Committee on the Economic Report took a look in its own crystal ball, predicted good business for the next twelve months. One big prop: an expected $71.3 billion in defense outlays, up from $57.4 billion in the fiscal year just ended...