Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wallace Woodworth and his Cambridge Choristers are in Symphony Hall this weekend. Together with the Boston Symphony, they presented a well-varied program yesterday afternoon that at times verged on the spectacular...
Another Japanese admiral turned up in the news last week, and offered more spectacular proof of changing times. Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's special "peace envoy" in Washington on Pearl Harbor Day, showed up at the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka to attend a ceremony aboard the battleship Wisconsin. He came to see his old friend, Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, take over command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet from Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin. Said Nomura, who is still on the purge list: "I have always admired the American Navy. It was wonderful talking to old friends about...
...spectacular three-cushion game is the toughest: the cue ball, to score a point, must touch the cushions at least three times before hitting the second object ball. This is so difficult that the record run (points scored in a row), a mere 25 reeled off by Hoppe in 1928,* is regarded by cue connoisseurs as astronomical...
There are, of course, the usual DeMille touches--crowd scenes, production numbers, spectacular photography, and a sensational five-minute train crash that makes the wreck of Old 97 look like a kiddie-car collision. These parts and the circus acts are diverting and enjoyable providing of course you check your brain with the midget on duty in the lobby...
Greatest Show On Earth almost supersedes itself in the spectacular. Cecil B.'s technicolor triumph, at the Metropolitan, is about as big a menagerie as you'll ever find in screendom...