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...plain Frederick George Cuthbert William Smythe, of the Smokeless Coal Smythes, who was determined to woo & win Alice, partly for her looks and partly for her $20 million which would help stabilize the shaky family business. After announcing: "I'll catch my little filly, I'll tame her, willy nilly, right round the neck I'll noose her and nevermore will loose her," he got a job as Alice's private secretary. For an act or so, Alice dodged his lasso. Then, in the second act finale where things started popping in the old Viennese operettas...
...tells the story of a reformed, horse-loving outlaw (Howard Duff) who meets up with the pretty daughter (Ann Blyth) of a rich, horse-racing rancher (George Brent). Howard is out to capture a wild horse. Ann, despite some flimsy pretenses to the contrary, is bent on catching a tame husband. After a good deal of shooting, roping and racing, and without offending either the S.P.C.A. or the Johnston Office, both of them get what they are after...
...ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
...make it smoother and faster, Brakeman Bill Casey and his U.S. fellow crewmen adjusted their helmets and inspected their 507-lb. sled. The driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they tucked down their heads like monks in meditation and the sled picked up speed...
...theoretical way of "seeing around the earth" and guiding a missile that may explain the continued official interest in artificial satellites (TIME, Jan. 10). Granted the development of nuclear-powered rocket motors, it would not be impossible to establish such a satellite revolving round the earth like a tame moon. If its orbit were several thousand miles high, it could watch a good part of the earth (see diagram...