Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copious use of an opium pipe to discover any further similarities between the film and the Bret Harte story of the same moniker. This is not to say that the net result isn't mildly diverting, which it is, though the melodrama gets a little sticky around the fourth reel...
Soviet moviemakers know their box office. Copenhagen audiences last week were seeing a Soviet-made horse opera that managed to combine cowboys with horse racing and a hearty helping of World War II anti-German propaganda, all wrapped lumpily into ten reels. The story of Kosakhest (Cossack Horse): A Cossack cowboy enters his horse in a race against a jockey who is after the cowboy's girl. But war begins and the jockey turns out to be a saboteur who escapes to Nazi lines after wounding the cowboy. The clever horse, who apparently can do everything but dance...
...trouble," he went on, "is that the newsreels try to compete with newspapers and television newsreels. It's plain that they can't. There will always be a two or three day lag between the event and the reel. No one wants to sit squirming in his seat as Truman talks for ten minutes on the steel situation, especially when the text of the speech can be found in any good newspaper...
...Texas Sportsman Alfred C. Glassell Jr., the world's record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk-about 300 lbs.-of the tail...
...souvenir, a colorful dopatta (shawl) which she promptly put on for the benefit of photographers. Later, after a dinner party in Lahore where eight little Pakistani girls did a Punjabi folk dance, Mrs. Roosevelt amazed and delighted the guests by going through a 15-minute exhibition of the Virginia Reel...