Word: take-off
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Fanfan the Tulip. A farcical take-off on costume dramas, with Gérard Philipe as the swashbuckling hero; Gina Lollobrigida is the eye-filling heroine (TIME...
...rising to the bait of $7,500, warmed up for a week's work at Chicago's Chez Paree, her debut in any such emporium of liquor and lowbrow music. "There will be no Wagner," she promised. "This will be nothing but fun . . ." Her big number: a take-off on Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson mangling that sweet old song Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey...
...meanwhile, Flyers Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, preparing for a hop of their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word from the weatherman. On May loth, two days after Frenchmen Nungesser and Coli take off from Paris...
Finding the right plane is a puzzler; "Rene Fonck, France's World War I ace, has just crashed on the take-off at Roosevelt Field in a trimotored Sikorsky biplane, and two of his crew members have burned to death. Lindbergh distrusts the heavy, intricate, three-engine craft of the day: too much could go wrong. But his backers are cautious; they urge him to go to the renowned Fokker Co. A three-engine plane for such a flight will cost $90,000, the salesman tells him. When Lindbergh mentions a one-engine job, the salesman's voice...
Fanfan the Tulip. A farcical take-off on costume dramas, with Gérard Philipe as the swashbuckling hero ; Gina Lollobrigida is the eye-filling heroine (TIME...