Word: stagecoach
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...largest Scranton rally to date was held this afternoon in Union Square. The Governor arrived in a horse-pulled stagecoach as throngs cheered and appauded his further attacks on the Arizona senator. Even the large band of Ringo Starr-for-President girls was there screaming...
...PSYCHIC STRESS is probably no more severe now than in the days of the stagecoach and the highwayman, said the University of Michigan's Neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard. "It is not long ago that a man, leaving the small safety of his home in the morn ing, ran considerable risk of being robbed or assassinated by ruffians, or jailed or executed by his rulers, before he could return to it. And the home it self was a poor sanctuary from starva tion and disease, from pain and pri vation and death." Things are better now, even for the underprivileged...
...angel in a Christmas pageant, grimly determines to make the best of a bad situation-on top of his halo he wears a Stan Musial cap. But most of the film is intolerable Technicolored tarradiddle, absolutely the worst movie ever directed by the illustrious John Ford (The Informer, Stagecoach). Watching him make such stuff is like watching Escoffier make mudpies...
...York's Freedomland, so far a financial disaster (to the tune of some $5,000,000 per annum), has now surrounded its stagecoach and paddle-wheel steamers with some $3,000,000 worth of traditional hold-onto-your-hat rides. "Basically there are only two rides: up and down, or around-but you've got to have them to make a living in this business," says Freedomland Vice President Art Moss. Freedomland's latest include a monorail roller coaster imported from Germany, a Space Whirl featuring bumper cars which can also whirl like dervishes at 100 r.p.m...
...Mitchell, a New Jersey newspaperman's son whose bushy eyebrows, gravelly voice and mile-wide Irish grin lit up the screen in 57 films, most notably as the rollicking Gerald O'Hara in Gone With The Wind and the prototype of a rum-pot frontier doctor in Stagecoach; of cancer; in Hollywood...