Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco's KPIX pioneered a campaign for a rapid-transit system in the bay area, plugged it with helicopter shots of traffic jams, views of a comfortable, studio-built commuter-train interior, even bought radio time to catch the ear of harassed motorists...
...Marlon Brando and Gary Grant; from playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) Inge; and from novelists such as James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, Irving (Lust for Life) Stone. It owns or represents such TV shows as Wagon Train, Tales oj Wells Fargo, Jack Benny, Ozzie and Harriet, Alfred Hitchcock, Dragnet and This Is Your Life. Revue Productions Inc., one of M.C.A.'s subsidiaries, is Hollywood's biggest producer of TV films, accounts for an estimated 25% of all television films. Another subsidiary, Management Corp. of America...
...Crickets. Purpose of the five-year course is to train the girls to support themselves as governesses, social workers, children's counselors and above all to be confident women who "know how to grace a home." Courses include Italian literature, history, geography, science, mathematics, French. English and religion (the last two taught by Mother Mary herself...
...fine place for hermits. "We are so impressed with the eremitical tendencies we see here," he said. "In our hermitage each monk lives alone in his hut, pursuing his own way or meditating in silence. But in Italy community life is very communal. An Italian who gets on a train introduces himself to his fellow passengers and states his business. The others do the same. Then follows a discussion of each one's affairs...
Musicians, like other artists, occasionally regard themselves as pioneers whose wagon train to the mountains of truth and beauty is encircled by whooping savages : the critics. Last week New York Philharmonic Wagon Master Leonard Bernstein, whose hide has been punctured by as many arrows as any, leveled his Winchester at a particular pesky redskin. Asked what he thought of music critics by Reporter Martin Agronsky on NBC-TV's Look Here show, Bernstein replied: "I have come to take them not very seriously any more. When you do get mad at a critic is when he is a self...