Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry's Full House (20th Century-Fox) might have been entitled Quintet, for it takes its cue from the successful Somerset Maugham omnibus movies, Trio and Quartet. It is a grab bag based on five short stories from the popular, prolific pen of William Sydney Porter.*With five different sets of directors, writers and stars and with chatty narration by John Steinbeck. O. Henry's Full House is long on box-office names, sometimes short on the natty irony that O. Henry gave his trick tales of Manhattan...
...Fowler, assistant chief of staff (assistant city editor), Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. He plans to study government and economics...
...winged or twin-boomed (like the U.S.'s old P-38)? He chose axial flow, even though Sir Frank Whittle, who pioneered jets, advised the other; Sopwith thinks the Sapphire proved his own judgment right. His choice of delta-wing at first shocked Sopwith's crack designer, Sydney Camm, who dashed off to Yorkshire to seek "The Skipper," crying: "I won't have it! I won't have it!" The Skipper's calm reply: "Why?" Designer Camm returned to his drawing board convinced. Says he: "When he asks you why and looks...
Speaking Frankly. In Sydney, Australia, delayed by local floods, Lecturer Robert Stevens was forced to cancel a talk before the University of Sydney's geological society entitled: "Why Is a Geologist Interested in Water...
...Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...