Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towering (6 ft. 4¼ in.) son of a hefty Negro bus driver, Thomas grew up in Boston, and he is still growing. He weighs 185 Ibs. now, should get up to 215 in five years. Key to the Thomas style is the powerful spring in his left heel, developed by hours of lying on his back and hoisting 350-lb. weights with his legs. Approaching the bar from the left at a 37° angle, he takes seven progressively longer strides -then brakes hard on his left heel. He springs off the heel, kicks mightily with the right foot...
Innovators Jacobs and Belson took Vortex to the Brussels Fair last fall, saw a portion of their bewildered audience walk out at the first break (said Belson hopefully: "They walked out on Rite of Spring, too"). But San Franciscans have taken to Vortex so enthusiastically that they were standing in line last week to get in. Vortexmen Jacobs and Belson are confident that they have stumbled on a form that will "drag people away from TV" and beat Cinerama at its own game ("Once you've seen Lowell Thomas fly round the world, you've had it"). Their...
...story of this encounter soon goes the rounds in Fractured Jaw, but nobody believes it until the Englishman (with the invisible assistance of a spring and lever strapped to his forearm) casually outdraws one of the fastest guns in the Territory. At that instant, of course, he wins the heart of the cutie that's known as Kate (Jayne Mansfield), but to his horror he also acquires a sheriff's star. And so the rest of the picture resolves into a daydream of how easily the West would have been won if the English, instead of mere colonials...
...Monty's Double (NTA Pictures). In the spring of 1944, not long before Dday, Adolf Hitler had reason to congratulate himself on the efficiency of German intelligence in North Africa. All along the air route from the Rock to the Nile, agents picked up rumors that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was making a secret inspection tour of Allied forces in the area, and several of the best reported that they had actually seen and spoken with the general. The Germans knew that invasion of Europe was imminent, but they were not dead sure where it would come from...
...last week assembled business leaders at "Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Their theme: "Recovery: how strong, how long?" Their conclusion: recovery should continue well into 1959. Even as they met, there were indications that while some parts of the economy have stopped to catch their breath, others continued to spring along in a sort of relay race...