Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000, has created the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
...becomes a harp; the phrenetic maestro sharpens his baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result is spectacular, in a sort of highbrow Spike Jones vein...
From the heyday of radio's first spectacular giveaways, quiz producers have stacked the cards to make the game as entertaining as possible. Stop the Music telephoned listeners, apparently at random, to give them a chance to name the "mystery tune" and win a growing jackpot, but by the time the broadcast started, the calls were stacked up on the switchboard and auditioned by a program staffer, who put them on the air in the most dramatic order. Just in case enough listeners might not know the mystery tune, tips on its name were planted regularly in Walter Winchell...
...well as an incredibly brave man. His superiors feared his escapades nearly as much as did the enemy (on the eve of war his horseplay got him expelled from Annapolis; later, at sea, his irresponsibility in humiliating a British ship's captain became an international incident). His most spectacular adventure was the destruction of the Confederate ironclad, Albemarle, at its anchorage in Plymouth, N.C. Several Union attempts to destroy the ironclad had already failed, and a garbled account of Cushing's plan was reported in Northern newspapers before he set out. With 14 men in a motor launch...
Around the World in 80 Days. Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000 has created a spectacular travelogue (TIME...