Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen, to most Canadians, is particularly precious as "something we have that the Americans don't have." Explained a businessman: "We Canadians need a symbol to rally round." And he added tartly: "On the U.S. scene there is a vacuum. After all, you can't rally round the country's most prominent golfer...
Bach's students have left the country some of its most stunning pictorial records: George Strock's heart-stopping World War II scene of a dead American soldier on Buna Beach in New Guinea, Bob Landry's slinky wartime pinup of Rita Hay worth (reprinted 60 million times), the distinguished Korean war photographs of Hank Walker and John Dominis. Today, Fremont High is still turning out expert Bach graduates. But fewer are able to cash in on Bach's training: the school has become predominantly Negro, and Teacher Bach confronts a color line (though...
...more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene from Jerry Lewis. In Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), she tripped into a memorable bit of miscasting-Ouida, the Hindu princess. Despite wig and dark makeup. Shirley looked about as Indian as Miss Rheingold, but she had no regrets. "Golly," she wrote a New York roommate about Producer Mike...
...makers hope to increase demand not only at home but by developing world markets. In Western Europe and Canada percapita consumption of aluminum is only 6.2 Ibs. a year v. 21 Ibs. in the U.S. Says Reynolds' President R. S. Reynolds Jr.: "International markets will be the next scene of dramatic aluminum growth...
...learning that his friend was born out of wedlock, "That's mighty pretty country around there." Lardner's act is hard to follow, and by comparison, Busch's novel is as solemn as a convocation of bishops. Its most egregious epigraphy comes before the climactic scene. The book's central figure, a bombastic newspaper publisher who is given to raging soliloquies, is cruelly beset in his old age by two ungrateful daughters, who try to seize the paper in a proxy fight. Only his third daughter remains steadfast. Does the reader see the Shakespearean parallel...