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...easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
Jane sings One for My Baby in a gold gown, You Kill Me in a white, off-the-shoulder number, and clinches with Mitch-urn on a sampan, a yacht and a bed. Mitchum rescues Jane from an overly amorous admirer, stalks danger along the waterfront and over rooftops, avenges Bendix' death and bares his torso to the camera. During all this activity, Jane rolls her eyes at intervals and effectively registers two moods: petulance and boredom. Meanwhile, Mitchum maintains his sleepy-eyed deadpan...
...school taught 11,000 Air Corps cadets how to fly. But at war's end, Ryan, like other planemakers, went into a dive. He slashed his work force from 8,500 to 850; to keep them busy, he started making a streamlined casket which he called the "Grecian Urn." It just about buried Ryan; in 1947 the company lost...
...expressiveness that seems to grow more poignant with the years. Tenor Brian Sullivan sang his role of Admetus powerfully, if not always as cleanly as the classical style demands. The staging was a trifle fussy, and the corps de ballet postured like so many figures on a Grecian urn. But alongside the triumphs of the performance, the defects were minor. Top honors: Kirsten Flagstad and Christoph Gluck...
...diplomat shipped back by diplomatic pouch. When the pouch was opened in Washington, Mr. Will found that the cardboard container had split, and the ashes were spilled. Mr. Will summoned an undertaker, who carefully sifted the diplomat out of the mail, put the ashes in a suitable urn and sent them on to the waiting relatives...