Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epic. The problem of pictorial composition within the stretched-out frame is fairly well handled, chiefly by making the actors move more and the camera less. The cutting from one scene to another is a little heavyhanded, but the eye soon learns to allow for it, and the light skip from scene to scene, so necessary in comedy, does not seriously falter...
...lived in anticipation of the day when the King and Queen of Greece would visit her father's farm, 40 miles from Chicago, as part of their good-will tour of the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 9). Then last week, pretty Queen Frederika caught a cold and had to skip the trip to the farm. "I told all my friends I was going to see a queen," sobbed Cheryl. "I've never seen a real, live queen!" But King Paul kept his date, and, as his 18-car motorcade stopped in front of the Smiths' frame house, Cheryl...
...Ford Foundation report, due this winter, backs up last year's Andover report suggesting that qualified secondary school graduates be allowed to skip their freshman year of college, some Ivy league faculties have indicated that they will give the plan strong consideration. Friends of the scheme argue that in certain secondary schools much of the work done in the senior year is duplicated during the first college year. Hoping to eliminate this wasted time for the bright and well-trained student, supporters of the Andover report would start these men in the sophomore year, bypassing the survey courses that generally...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Skip Homeier in The Ledge...
...second period, however, the Crimson came back playing a fast, rough game on defense, shaking up the Eph stickhandlers, and capitalizing on opportunities to score. Williams got two quick tallies, but the varsity again tied the score and went ahead, 7 to 6, on goals by Skip Baldwin, Waring, and two by Curtis...