Word: spang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unknown, about a jet flyer, and the reason he is racing his engine is that half the population of Hollywood is hell-bent in the same exciting direction. The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown. Spang in the middle of a firm prosperity, the production pattern of three decades is dissolving. The mighty major studios, which have dominated U.S. moviemaking since L. B. Mayer founded the M-G-Mpire, have been brought to humbling terms by a spectacular revolt of the stars. Hollywood, which thought...
...slow old Europe. The racing scenes, in fact, are among the most frantic ever filmed. As the little red devils scream the curves and hellbat the straightaway, nose to rump of the car ahead, hot and light on the track as grits in a frying pan, the customer sits spang on the front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into bed with Bella Darvi. Kirk's problem in this picture seems to be: Which has the more exciting clutch? He seems to prefer the Ferrari, even though Actress Darvi offers...
...Service, "there should be available a hospital to which patients suffering from a particular disease . . . could be admitted." That was in 1911, and it took a generation for PHS to get its plans to the blueprint stage. Last week in Bethesda, Md., the blueprint at length became reality; the spang-new Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health opened its door to patients...
...Yale Daily News. Its editor and chief backer, George A. Plimpton, headed the Lampoon four years ago, its managing editor, Thomas Guinzburg, held the same position at the Yalie Daily in 1950, while Peter Matthiessen, the fiction editor, recently taught creative writing in New Haven. Harold Humes and Thomas Spang of the business staff are local products, and Train, noted for his verse, cartoons, and stories in the 1950-51 Lampoon, is listed as the Business Manager of the Review. In short, the new publication is, as the Yalies say, "shoe...
...Spang new Allston Burr Lecture Hall made its debut as a theatre yesterday when a crowd of 500 watched Thomas Lehrer 5G and four assistants--enact. "The Physical Revue," a satire on the University in general, and science courses in particular...