Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlal Stevenson found himself looking into the barrel of a Red policeman's Tommy gun after prowling about the ruins of Hitler's chancellery in East Berlin, was told, "You move, I shoot." ("Curiously," Stevenson later remarked, "I didn't move.") Because a member of Stevenson's party took pictures of him amid the rubble, they were held at gunpoint by seven policemen for half an hour while resisting a trip down to headquarters. The Communists, who did not know who Stevenson was, finally released the group after seizing the exposed film. Said Stevenson...
Last week's big day belonged to the aces. Back in harness was Major James Jabara, who became the first jet ace in 1951, to shoot down his 13th and 14th MIGs. Colonel James Johnson, 37-year-old commander of the Fourth Fighter-Interceptor Wing, destroyed his tenth. Another oldster, Lieut. Colonel Vermont Garrison, 37, who shot down eleven Nazi planes in World War II, got his ninth MIG the same day. Among the younger aces who added to their scores was Captain Ralph Parr, 28, who flew 165 fighter-bomber missions on his first Korean tour...
...Free the remaining 8,000 anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Clark has already taken some precautions by moving the 8,000 into two camps under U.S. Army and Marine guards. If a breakout is attempted anyway, Clark (with Washington's backing) has ordered the camp commanders not to shoot to kill or wound, but to fire into the air or the ground and to use non-lethal gases. If most or all of the 8,000 escape in spite of these measures, Clark considers this a lesser evil. Reason: the Communists have already shown that they care much less...
Beaudine learned his trade in the silent days with such oldtimers as Marie Prevost and Ben Turpin. Says he: "We'd write 'em, shoot 'em and print 'em in a week." Nowadays, most Hollywood directors are apt to shoot one scene scores of times; but a lot of TV programs have happily reversed progress and gone back to the old slapdash days. Today, Beaudine has a budget of $25,000 a film, and it costs $10,000 a day to shoot. Beaudine seldom takes more than 2½ days to get a film...
...Shoot First (Raymond Stress-United Artists) is the latest pedestrian movie to try a climb up John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps. Despite a slick script by British Whodunit Expert Eric Ambler, the film trips over its own footage...