Word: reelingly
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...papers are set in type as a rough working draft. Galleys in hand, Churchill then dictates to secretaries who work in relays, filling in his transitions, anecdotes and explanations. Two are always on call for odd-hours dictation: in the 45-minute drive from London to Chartwell he may reel off 800 words of text. (But sometimes he labors for hours over a paragraph.) A man of enormous vitality, he may dictate as early as 8 a.m. and as late...
TIME was trying to prove in pictures as well as words that important, "pig iron" news could be made graphic. A year later TIME ran two pages from a Fox Movietone reel of the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. Out of these experiments grew the idea of LIFE...
...hero's intrepid little band of one hundred (fifteen of whom are wounded in the left shoulder). It never came, and that's just about the trouble with "Captain from Castile"; it never quite comes off. Every scene seems to lead inevitably to a gigantic battle in the final reel, but all suddenly comes to naught as Mr. Power and friends march off into a sunset fadeout...
...violent color contrasts, strident blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power himself suffers more than all his adversaries combined, culminating with a grievous wound in the left shouder...
...techniques are still varied and far from smooth. Some telecommercials are as outdated as the nickelodeon's between reel slides: static, leering mink-coat models or unwinking concentration on a bar of soap. Some are working along promising lines: most admen admire Lucky Strike's cartoons and its battalion of animated, marching cigarettes...