Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the U.S. South ran the sight and sound, the pain and glory of historic sociological change. Where racism had been growing roots ever since the first slaves for the British colonies arrived in 1619, more Negro children began going to school in the same classrooms with white children. As is often the case in such moments of history, the worst and the best in man-hate and human charity, stupidity and wisdom-came out before the world...
...plane had landed at McGuire because the Port of New York Authority has banned all jets except the comparatively quiet French Caravelle (not yet in regular use, but cleared for Idlewild) from New York-area airports. The Authority refused to make an exception unless the plane passed a sound test, which the Russians refused to permit...
...bear to watch the puppets being shut away in their box. Last week, as sad Kuklapolitans and sadder viewers said goodbye to a show that was simple, scriptless, sketchily rehearsed and never tied by contracts. Tillstrom said: "It endured on one principle -love. I hope it doesn't sound too holy. But we loved our audience, and they loved us. It was just a big love affair...
...enlisted man in the Canadian Tank Corps at 15, he later spent six months in the U.S. Navy, was booted out on a physical. Encouraged by the sound of his resonant voice, he became "the world's worst announcer" for San Francisco's Mutual outlet, moved on from station to station ("Whenever I got a new job I got married to celebrate"). Before his first year on TV was out, hard-drinking Don had missed more than 30 telecasts, but no one seemed to care. He latched onto two shows, Where's Sherwood? and Why Sherwood...
...legend of the brooding genius is always simmering near by-just offscreen, on the sound track, between frames. But it never really comes off for the simple reason that it was largely fraudulent, the creation of movie-fan magazines and ambitious young Dean himself. Director George Stevens, who pushed James Byron Dean very close to his brilliant acting ceiling in Giant, once phrased an obituary that is probably far more accurate than the Story: "Jimmy was just a regular kid trying to make good in Hollywood. Someone's making a pile of dough out of this morbid Dean business...