Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised his bow and rolled forward. He found that he could not steer. Neither could he stop. He screamed. Two seconds later, Mrs. Corneily's ?500 mirror was in splinters, the fiddle was matchwood, and Merlin was bleeding like a pig. Thus, in 1760, the sport of roller skating was born...
Last week the first history of the sport was published: Roller Skating Through the Years by Brooklyn rink-owner Morris Traub (William-Frederick Press, $1). It captured the nostalgic whirl and clatter of skates from the days of Joseph Merlin to those of Western Union...
...Powder Co., which worked on the problem for many years, the new method involves a powdered resin called Stabinol. The powder is spread on the soil, a few pounds per square yard; then it is harrowed in six inches deep and the soil is packed hard with a steam roller. The result is a smooth, dry surface that sheds water like a duck's back. It is good for tennis courts, athletic fields, earth dams-and especially for roads. The Army has already begun to use it for roads and airfields...
...Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Paramount) is a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster. Its ordinary enough subject -the difficulties of a small-town girl, pregnant, without a husband-is treated with the catnip giddiness to be expected from Writer-Director Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve). The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults-both as fun and as cinema...
...years old, from Papal Marquis George MacDonald. The price: $1,601,000. Terms: cash. The deal was interesting: when the famed Roney Plaza opened in 1926, J. Myer Schine was strictly nobody. In 1918 he opened his first movie theater modestly in Gloversville, N.Y. It was an old roller-skating rink which he converted with a borrowed $1,500. Last week Schine, now owner of a chain of some 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland, lolled in Miami. When asked what he did up north, he retorted, "I sit and watch snowflakes slide down windowpanes. What...