Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, there are those who feel that the after-effects of Winter Carnival will show in the play of the hosts, but the well-informed disregard this feeling, since the Dartmouth team was on the road and missed the festivities in Hanover. Nonetheless, the post-Carnival letdown, if coupled with inspired Crimson shooting could bring about the down-fall of the undefeated...
...selling job, Cushing called on two fellow Harvardmen for help: George Weller. globe-trotting reporter for the Chicago Daily News, and Marshall Haseltine, urbane expatriate who lived in Europe. Weller got a leave of absence to work with Cushing. He drove into Squaw Valley over the rutted dirt road from State Highway 89, took one horrified look and decided on the spot that the pitch had to be a return to Olympic ideals of togetherness and simplicity, in contrast to Europe's ornate resorts...
...Michigan's General Motors, Symes wrote a cheerfully insulting letter to Leader, saying he would gladly give Leader to Michigan "and ask nothing in return." Then he invited Leader to lunch. Before it was over, Symes got a promise from Leader to build a $1,500,000 state road to lure into Pennsylvania a new Hammermill Paper Co. plant, which will eventually create 3,000 new jobs and more business for the Pennsy...
...five times wed (and divorced) Broadway musicomedienne of the '20s and. '30s (Artists and Models, Life Begins at 8:40), who dazzled crowds with her throaty versions of civilized blues (her trademark: a wisp of chiffon tied to one finger), retired after a sporadic later career of road shows and TV guest shots; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Journey (Alby; MGM) takes the road that is rutted with good intentions. The film was apparently planned, in a soft-headed way, as an effort to find a silver lining in the Iron Curtain. As it has turned out, it seems no more than an unfeeling attempt to make a little money. The hero of the story is a soulful Russian major (Yul Brynner) who commands a border garrison during the 1956 Hungarian rebellion and the ensuing slaughter. He detains a busload of foreigners who are trying to leave the country, because he suspects that some of them may really...