Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign speech for the 1956 elections, Adlai Stevenson last week was crisp, caustic and effective. He had an ideal backdrop for his speech: Duluth, where Senator Hubert Humphrey's strongly pro-Stevenson Minnesotans cheered him to the echo. Some 900 Democrats slushed through the season's first snow to the National Guard Armory and cheerfully paid $10 a plate for roast beef and 50? for badges saying, "I'm still madly for Adlai." A jazz band played It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (also known as Be Sure It's True When...
...Tall Men (20th Century-Fox). And the wind blew and the snow flew and before the censor could dig his way into the wilds of Montana and this script, Jane Russell is shacked up in a log cabin with Clark Gable, and there is nothing between them except grandmother's quilt. At night, while Jane lies sighing and stretching like a contented kitten, Clark gnaws happily at a piece of mule meat. "After a long ride," he explains, "I get hungry as a bear." In the morning Jane suggests a clubby breakfast. "I wish I was a peach tree...
Actually, Esther Williams started out wearing old-fashioned bathing suits, one on top of the other. Then she began to peel. She displayed everything from the first bathing costume ever created, which looked like a snow suit, down to a bikini. She didn't wear the bikini. She palmed...
...temperature went down to 33 degrees at Dartmouth Saturday, but it still couldn't account for the snow that appeared on television screens in this area. In locations just north or south of Cambridge; the Crimson's first performance on television since 1951--and the first show ever from Hanover--came over very well. The video waves from Providence, R.I. and Manchester, N.H. scrupulously avoided Harvard Square, however, so that most of the sets here produced only an electronic blizzard and a fatherly voice that at one point intoned: "I hope the boys play a good clean game...
Westward from the man on the hospital terrace swept the Rockies, flecked with the gold of the cottonwoods and aspens, beneath cloudless autumn skies. To the northwest stood Longs Peak, 14,255 ft., and to the southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...