Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patricia Neal is equally well cast in her part; her performance is technically perfect. The script gives her no opportunity for explosive dramatics, yet she manages to express her love for her husband and family, and her continual worry about them, without having to resort to stage tricks. She walks into rooms without making entrances, she holds her voice within the small, unexciting range of normal people. Although Phyllis Thaxter overplays the "other woman" in more than one scene, the minor characters generally succeed in their primary task: they are good enough to fit smoothly into the film's supporting...
WOLMI (Moon Tip) ISLAND was a rather useless place. Its only local reputation was as an off-the-cuff summer resort for the town of Inchon, to which it is joined by a long causeway. The northern end of the tiny island had boasted a large inn, complete with swimming pool, where Inchon's successful merchants could enjoy the summer breezes. After the Communists invaded South Korea, they set up a small guard unit on the island, ringed it with earthworks and hastily dug trenches...
...earth billowed on Wolmi; the land at water's edge was no longer visible. At 6:05 the Corsairs came. They flashed down over the island to drop their bombs, and cylinders of smoke pillared up from Wolmi's hills and the shattered remnant of the resort hotel. In the LSUs a marine shouted happily: "Save us a little of that island...
...President did not think the Production Act's provision for applying selective controls was too well written. For one thing, he did not like the way wage controls were tied to price controls. "As a result we may have to resort to general controls before they are really necessary. This may prove to be a serious defect...
...Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., sixth largest U.S. bank (TIME, Sept. n), American Red Cross officer, chairman (1939-41) of the New York World's Fair, sportsman, joiner, booster (he spent more than $300,000 to make his home town of North Conway, N.H. a fancy ski resort); of a heart ailment; in Boston. Gibson started out as a floor-sweeper after his graduation from Bowdoin College, became a bank president at 35. He was general manager of the Red Cross in World War I, its commissioner to Great Britain, then to Western Europe, in World...