Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seasons in London. It is, for Coward, rather Victorian in spirit as well as in setting; it scents its sinfulness with lavender, bodices its escalades in whalebone. The story takes a long evening to unfold, but can be summarized in a sentence. A marchioness and an American rail baron pursue their eloping spouses (Edna Best and Brian Aherne), fall in love while separating the lovers, and themselves elope in turn...
...radio. In 1950, stubbornly convinced that he could make better records than he could buy (he ridicules most current ''high-fidelity" products as "high fidoodledy''), Cook spent a few rainy nights among the shunting yards of Harmon and Peekskill, N.Y. to record an LP called Rail Dynamics, whose clanking drivewheels and hissing steam valves are just about the most realistic sound effects in the business. For Recordist Cook, the disk represented an attitude. "The basic reason for serious records," says he, "is to preserve something ; a performance, a situation, a sound, an emotion." It also represented...
...script puts Father Brown (Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with a pretty widow (Joan Greenwood). Widows, as somebody in the picture remarks, are irresistible because "if you are better than the first [husband], they are grateful, and if you are worse, they are not surprised...
...that are physical neighbors but commercial strangers; in La Paz it used to be cheaper to buy imported sugar than Santa Cruz sugar. Now the road also gives access to other food crops, cattle, mahogany and prospectively rich oil land. In addition, it provides the final link in a rail-and-highway route from Rio de Janeiro to the Pacific Coast. Construction of the road, hampered by red tape and revolutions, took ten years, cost $45 million ($34 million of it in U.S. loans). One of Holland's pleasant duties last week was to watch while Paz Estenssoro...
Delaware was not the only infected area last week. In Georgia, 24 knights of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing white robes, gathered around a burning cross near Atlanta to hear two speakers rail against the "black-robed buzzards of the Supreme Court." In Marion County, W. Va., Judge J. Harper Meredith had to issue an injunction to stop 53 white parents from threatening teachers on their way to the partially segregated Annabelle School. Such obstructionism, said the judge, "is a rebellion against the government . . . If necessary, I'll fill the jail until their feet are sticking out the windows...