Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first line of Bud Higginbottom, Dick Fischer and Dave Vietze can be counted on to produce at least a goal per man. The second line has seen Bob Anderson move back to his accustomed position at defense, and Les Duncan move to center between Paul Kelley and Mo Balboni...
There is also an anti-volcano faction. One eminent American astronomer, who does not want to commit himself publicly until he has digested still more evidence, is highly skeptical. He has examined Alphonsus and has seen no slightest change. He has heard that some Soviet astronomers have their doubts about Kozyrev. They suggest that "he thinks that it is his destiny to make a great discovery." When Kozyrev made the spectrograms, he did not mention them to his colleagues at the Crimean Observatory. Instead, he rushed off to Moscow and a week later held a press conference to announce...
...ably played by Art Carney, The Velvet Alley never made clear why a man cannot make $100,000 a year without being a heel, or why, somehow, little old New York is a safer place to be successful than Hollywood. The most intriguing fact about the play was not seen on the TV screen: Author Serling's own partial identification with his hero. Working on the show, said Serling, "I left strips of flesh and blood all over the studio. The externals of the play are definitely autobiographical -the pressures involved, the assault on values, the blandishments that...
...German intelligence in North Africa. All along the air route from the Rock to the Nile, agents picked up rumors that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was making a secret inspection tour of Allied forces in the area, and several of the best reported that they had actually seen and spoken with the general. The Germans knew that invasion of Europe was imminent, but they were not dead sure where it would come from. So just to be on the safe side, Hitler held back 60,000 troops and a Panzer division from the Channel coast, deployed them to reinforce...
...introduction, provides a convenient Who's Who. Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin." Publisher John Lane, who published works by Anatole France, Ernest Dowson and Francis Thompson, is seen as Slim Schelm, "a tubby little pot-bellied bantam, looking as though he had been suckled on bad beer." Oldcastle commissions Crabbe to write a history of the Medici family for ?1 a week and ?10 on publication. Young writers today, who may count on being filled with...