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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tower at Washington National Airport, swarthy, earnest 21-year-old Glen T. Tigner could see for miles out over the Virginia countryside. Traffic was light. A war surplus P-38, owned by the Bolivian government, took off for a practice flight at 11:37. It snarled off out of sight. Then there was a lull before Eastern Air Lines flight 537, a four-engine DC-4 inbound from New York, asked for landing instructions...
...field, and saw the fighter circling at 5,000 feet. He switched to its radio channel, told its pilot too to circle the field in the left-hand traffic pattern. He got no acknowledgment. As the transport began its final turn, the men in the tower saw a fearful sight-the fighter, wheels down, was streaking straight in for the same runway on which the DC-4 was about to settle down...
Last month the filmsters went back to Much Wenlock to shoot Gone to Earth's climactic scenes. They found a new and unexpected chill in the Shropshire air: there was not a Master of Foxhounds in sight who would lend a pack of hounds to them. They tried farther afield, but the Sports Society had done its work well. "We gave no orders to any M.F.H.," explained its Assistant Secretary Michael Shephard. "We simply advised them that in the opinion of the B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned...
Miss Crawford's chronic idealism, which has helped to nourish such noncommercial projects as the Experimental Theatre and the Actors' Studio, startled hard-shelled Broadway during the run of Brigadoon. With big profits in sight, she gave her cast of 62 what no performers expected from a producer: hospitalization insurance, free advanced acting lessons from Director Lee Strasberg, a week's vacation with...
...brothers, the sons she bears to Joseph.* When Yeshua begins to sense his Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden of Gethsemane to eavesdrop on the arrest, a few pages further has her climb to where the cross stands on Golgotha...