Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selection of friendly, unassuming "Whit" Griswold, who favors quiet tweeds and drives his own maroon jeep station wagon, came as a surprise. New Haven scuttlebutt had been tossing around the name of Secretary of State Dean Acheson ('15) and others. President-Elect Griswold seemed as surprised as anybody. Said he: "It was so sudden I've had no time to make plans. My wife is bearing up bravely ... I feel fine...
...West, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. A well-knit yarn about an Oregon-bound covered-wagon train in which no one resembles Jane Russell and no one gets scalped (TIME...
...feelings of friends of the Red Indian was the last straw. Said he: "I protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...
Record Year? The other motormakers were hustling as hard as G.M. for business. Ford cut the prices of its V-8 station wagon to $1,970, a drop of $148, put out a new six-cylinder station wagon for $1,895. It also wheeled out its new, though hardly changed, Lincoln, the last of its 1950 models. Henry Ford confidently expected his company would have its biggest year ever, said he planned to step up production 20% to 5,000 passenger cars a day during April, May and June. To expand further, he bought a 200-acre plot in Cleveland...
...narration knits together a visual story built out of piazzas, palaces, cathedrals, old maps and prints, the rugged Italian landscapes and, above all, the sculptures, painting and architecture of Michelangelo. The picture gains dramatic immediacy from the rhythm of its cutting, actors' voices offscreen, turning wagon wheels, clashing swords, such shots as clouds racing over a jutting tower. Lighting moves across the screen like an actor, the camera tilts awry at an assassination, the focus blurs as if with pain when Michelangelo's nose is smashed in a brawl...