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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in East Sparta, Ohio, Richard began life as a normal boy. Then, in 1930 at age seven, for reasons no doctor has ever fully explained, he lost his sight...
...into the icy Thames and floated away in flotsam from the launching cradle. As four tugs fumed up and nudged her toward a fitting-out dock, the Nautilus rode high in the water (her reactor and other heavy parts have not yet been installed). As she disappeared out of sight of the stands, the sun suddenly disappeared with her and the fog closed in again on Groton...
When the last cyclist has disappeared from sight, you are likely to feel both jarred and satisfied. Clever photography and careful acting produce a definite atmosphere--you can almost smell gasoline and oil. Of course this may be due to the mob of leather jacket fans you fight through to find a seat. But it's worth...
Composer Richard Rodgers, a sight in tights, and Lyricist Oscar Hammerstem II, looking like a surrey with a fringe on the bottom, turned up in a mock audition skit at a party celebrating the closing, after nearly five years and 1,925 performances, of their famed Broad way musical South Pacific. Still the long-run champion of all musicals: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! with 2,246 performances...
Football, the creation of a 27-year-old North Carolina singer and former teacher named Andy Griffith, is a straight monologue purporting to be a wandering hillbilly's wide-eyed reactions to his first sight of a crowded college stadium, and is notable chiefly for Griffith's relentless rural drawl. Sample...