Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less & More. Britain's new Defense Minister, vigorous Harold MacMillan, after only six weeks in office, has set himself the goal of beefing up British defenses while lowering British taxes-to get more prang for the pound, a British version of more bang for a buck. MacMillan has made several big decisions. Items: ¶ Britain's antiaircraft command, which employs 100,000 regulars and reserves, is soon to be abolished. Reason: the Red air force's sweptwing, supersonic T-39 bomber (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) flies well above the range of Britain's heaviest ack-ack guns...
...Country Girl (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is the screen version-and a great improvement-of Clifford Odets ambiguous 1950 play about a middle-aged Broadway has-been and the two people who drag him up the comeback trail. It's a tough trail for the audience, too, but the view is well worth the trip...
...Star Is Born. Judy Garland makes a stunning comeback in a Technicolored musical version of 1937's Academy Award winner; with James Mason, Jack Carson (TIME...
...having some difficulty in deciding exactly what to present," said Harlow Shapley, Payne Professor of Practical Astronomy. Shapley has consented to telecast a condensed version of his popular Cosmography course at the request of the California Academy of Science. His class "attempts to orient man in a complex Universe...
This corrupt version of a well known jingle applies particularly well to Clifford Odets' new play, The Flowering Peach. Whenever Odets is naughty or cute, whether to shock or titillate the audience, he wins laughs or gasps of admiration. But when he sticks to his calling as that rare theatrical type--a thoughtful craftsman--he achieves mature drama...