Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April wedding strategy. Meanwhile, on a nearby movie set, Grace rested between scenes of her new film High Society, looking startlingly thin in an unflattering classic-cut bathing suit. Was this a new New Look? Roving U.P. Columnist Gloria Swanson thought so and hailed it. From Rome ex-Screen Siren Swanson cabled: "Now with . . . America's Grace Kelly leading the flat-chested brigade, leaving behind . . . all the other sweater girls, I hope it won't be long before Italy's overgrown divas will be the last contestants in the international Miss Community Chest contests...
...something so complex, Playwright Chayefsky lacks both the capacity and the concentration; his play trades in banalities more pretentious than any it chronicles. It lists characters in the program as The Girl, The Kid Sister, The Manufacturer; it does not list scene changes but flashes them on a movie screen; it inserts needless incidental music. And there is the sudden happy ending-ascribable, perhaps, to reckless optimism on the lovers' part, but more easily to commercial pessimism on the author's about harsher endings...
...Watson the visiting goalie is unmercifully exposed: by the very nature of his position, he stands alone waiting for action, while a swarm of hecklers can gather behind the screen a few feet away. In a sad way, the Harvard brand of goalie-baiting has been wonderfully successful. Dartmouth's Ted Bagnall received only mild heckling here, but except for one or two games he has been on the bench ever since...
...varsity went ahead for the first time early in the second period when goalie Marr kicked at Denny Little's shot and it went under his skate. But at 17:19, with Dan Ullyot in the penalty box, the Eph's Dick Gallun's screen shot tied the score again...
...places, helping the train hit speeds of 95 m.p.h. on curves on which older trains must hold to 70. The train has hit 110 m.p.h. on test runs. Passengers get a somewhat more jiggly ride than in heavier trains, but there are compensations: air conditioning, a television screen in the lounge that gives passengers an engineer's-eye view of the road ahead...