Word: thor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through John Lewis' United Mine Workers to Steel and the presidency of C.I.O. have given Murray enormous political power-a direct and live kind of power that few full-time politicians can equal. For a time, John Lewis held the same kind of power and hurled it, like Thor, in enormous thunderbolts. But, as Murray watched from close by, Lewis soon shot his bolts and lost his prestige. Murray keeps his power impersonal and out of the public eye, and thus it grows and multiplies. His views are a major factor in any important decision in Washington. How will...
Make It Sparse. Reynolds, an ex-radio & TV writer (Danger; We, the People), reached Sweden in 1950 with two American actors (Jerome Thor & Sydna Scott), an invitation from the head of Stockholm's Europa Film studios, and an idea: maybe the answer to the enormous costs of U.S. television might be found in low-budget European productions. It was by no means a new idea. Many another ambitious TVman has crossed the Atlantic to Paris and London for the same purpose. Almost without exception, they failed. Says Reynolds: "Mostly, their trouble was that they were thinking of nothing...
...interior shots are filmed in the Stockholm studios, but Reynolds makes periodic tours of the Continent, setting up his camera for exteriors of Parisian boulevards, Viennese squares, Berlin freight yards. He often shoots unscheduled scenes (e.g., Actor Thor bursting out of an ornate doorway and running up an architecturally impressive street, or Actress Scott dodging through the ruins of Hamburg) and then writes them into future plots...
...Best documentary feature: Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki (RKO Radio...
When Adventurer Thor (Kon-Tiki) Heyerdahl and his comrades visited Papeete, Mrs. Arlette Reasin, a Tahitian planter's wife, welcomed them with a hula, later sued Heyerdahl for $150,000 because he included pictures of the dance, without permission, in his book's movie version. Last week a Los Angeles judge dismissed the suit, decreeing that Mrs. Reasin's artistic efforts were "in effect, a gift...