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...passengers, the Convair had nosed over into a fatal dive. After skimming a girls' high school, one wing sliced into a three-story brick building and spun the plane into a two-family frame house. Blazing gas spewed over the neighborhood. Choking black smoke billowed up to thicken the fog. All 23 passengers, including former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, and crew members were killed. In the muck and charred ruins, Elizabeth (pop. 112,675) counted six of its own among the dead...
...promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing names and numbers of all the actors...
After his first major TV appearance, John Cameron Swayze eagerly phoned his wife Tuffie. "How did I look?" he asked breathlessly. Said Turner "Like you were dead." A bit dismayed, Swayze got rid of most of the television make-up he had been wearing, added a toupee to thicken out his sparse thatch, set himself to cultivating an air of friendly animation. In three years, these simple measures have helped to propel brisk, 45-year-old Newsaster Swayze into a bigger-than-TV prominence. His Camel News Caravan weekdays, 7:45 p.m., NBCTV) now has an audience of some...
...molecule contains proteins, fat, and a peculiar substance known as colesterol which causes the blood to thicken and congeal...
Most of what acting is required is adequately handled by Helen Carew and Charles Middleton as the wife and her farmer, any by Charles Burrows, in the only true comic characterization, as Uncle Walt, the perennial senile hick, The rest of the cast waits of the plot to thicken an occasionally jell into a laugh. There are more than the usual number of chuckles and a few that make you rock...