Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Trixie Friganza (real name: Brigid O'Callaghan), 83, famed turn-of-the-century musical comedy star (Sally in Our Alley, Hit the Deck) and silent screen comedienne (The Road to Yesterday, Free and Easy), known as vaudeville's "Champagne Girl": at the Sacred Heart Academy in Flintridge, Calif., where she had been living in retirement since...
...more than Ford dealers, according to the Polk computations. Only after subtracting the dealer registrations, said Ford Vice President R. S. McNamara, could one arrive at "actual sales to customers." These showed Ford clearly the legitimate winner by 25,257 car registrations, or 2%. Snapped a Chevrolet official: "Smoke screen. We're still the leaders, and we defy anyone to tell us differently...
...Purple Plain (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists) has something new and exotic to recommend it: a stunning 21-year-old Burmese beauty named Win Min Than, which means "brilliant a thousandfold." When she shimmers into focus in a screen-size closeup with a tremulous smile on her lips, sympathetic vibrations start humming around the movie house. They keep on humming as the girl with the almond-shaped eyes and trim little figure speaks the precise and attractively British English that she learned at an Irish convent in Rangoon. Her role in the movie (her first) is largely therapeutic. A crack...
...varsity's only two penalties came in the final period. At 13:02 Michigan capitalized on Cleary's miscue to score its seventh goal with a screen shot by Jerry Karpinka from the face-off circle...
...Picture screens of this sort need have hardly any thickness, and they can be scaled up, theoretically, to movie-screen size. But G.E. warns the public not to expect them on the market for a while...