Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the maelstrom last week, the suntanned President looked healthy and rested after a nine-day vacation in Georgia. The office had a new look, too: a-huge, bright-colored Japanese silk screen, a present from Crown Prince Akihito, stood before the fireplace. But the endless torrent of people and papers still flowed, and the vacation-time backup made the flow even stronger than usual...
...experts were muttering in mutinous tones about the Age of 3-D and its ramifications: ¶Producer Nunnally (The Senator Was Indiscreet) Johnson, on writing stories for a wide screen: "Just sit down at the typewriter. Only, from now on, put the paper in sideways...
Viewed from the distance of a television screen or a headline, President Eisenhower's address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (see below) was a striking definition of the kind of world the U.S. wants to live in. But in perspective, the speech had an even broader significance in the context of U.S. history. It marked a new, determined attempt by the U.S. to define its own nature and its purposes, in more specific terms than it had used since Lincoln...
...Crimson tallied once more when, at 2:25, Ed Curtis passed from behind the cage to Horween, who cluded a Trinity defenseman and drilled a screen shot past the goalie. After those three lightning tallies, the Trinity defense stiffened and prevented further scoring in the period...
Trouble Along the Way (Warner) travels a well-worn screen route along which moviegoers will encounter some fairly familiar figures: a humorously crotchety rector (Charles Coburn) of an impoverished Roman Catholic college, a cynical ex-football coach (John Wayne) who comes to the school's rescue by trying to put together a winning gridiron team, a pretty probation officer (Donna Reed) who, at the instigation of Wayne's unpleasant ex-wife (Marie Windsor), is investigating whether Wayne's eleven-year-old daughter (Sherry Jackson) is being neglected by her father. By the time Trouble Along...