Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dali had drawn 40 illustrations, and they were enough to make Cellini do a double roll in his grave. For example, Dali had decided to picture an incident when Cellini was five, and saw a lizard among the hot coals in the fireplace. The incident was memorable to Cellini, because his father "gave me a great box on the ears-and spoke as follows: 'My dear little boy, I am not striking you for any wrong that you have done, but only to make you remember that the lizard which you see in the fire is a salamander...
Chairman of the society's research committee is famed Psychologist Gardner Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...
...sailed for Wimbledon this spring, they wired him: "We want you to know that we realize you have done this for us." Ex-Jones boys who become champions are usually glad to reciprocate by teaching old tricks to his new prospects. Jones, who has seen six national amateur champions roll off his production line, now has one all picked out for 1950: Herbie Flam...
Under the new setup, U-I will become the first major company formed to produce A pictures exclusively. Many Universal production heads will roll. Such Universal executives as J. Cheever Cowdin and Nate Blumberg will retain their rank in what remains of their old company. Their job will be to distribute each year 25 U-I pictures, twelve hard-to-sell Rank pictures, and five of Charlie Einfeld's Enterprise Pictures Inc., U-I's foundling affiliate...
...have tasted better with less sugar. The sequence featuring the Goodman sextet is a bit of surrealism that seems to have no place in the realm of motion pictures, though it comes out better in an animated cartoon than when dragged into a regular movie as a dream sequence. "Roll Along, Blue Bayon," which stars two cranes cavorting in the heart of Senator Claghorn's country, is probably the dullest thing ever to come out of the Disney studios...