Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Admiralty last week described its floating airstrip, called "Lily" for short. Made of closely linked hexagonal buoys 6 ft. across and 30 in. deep, it yields a little to the waves, but is rigid enough to support a plane. Recently a 9,000 Ib. plane landed and took off from a strip 520 ft. long and 60 ft. wide...
...Love Too Easily. Then, as is his custom, the swoonmaster turned schoolmaster to lecture his charges about a "very, very important subject known as tolerance." The subject seemed to have quite a lot to do with Frankie, too. He gave his bobbysox listeners an earnest preview of a film short he had just made, and of the kind of thing they can expect from him every few weeks in his Old Gold radio show (CBS, Wed., 9 p.m., E.W.T...
Chronic moaner Earl ("Red") Blaik, Army's coach, moaned: "We're woefully short on backfield material"-which was one way of saying that his line was tremendous. And it was true that he had only a dozen backs. But that might suffice, since two of the twelve, Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and Glenn Davis, form football's deadliest one-two punch of the century...
With enough kindliness and finesse, something delightful might have been made out of a story like this. Desperately short on finesse, the film's makers laid on the loving kindness with such a broad commercial trowel that the effect is often suffocating. Most of the archness and comedy is even harder to take: e.g., the mystification over such bits of vital indigenous slang as "hot dog" and "bull" (policeman...
Running Water? In Chicago, Mrs. Wilson Smith decided that it would save time to be frank about her vacant apartment, advertised: "Dark, dirty four-room apartment. . . Shabby furn." Short Spin...