Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Older than, most of his classmates, Glenn Warner was naturally nicknamed "Pop." He had never played football before, and he developed a beginner's taste for trick plays. Soon after graduation he deserted the law and turned to coaching. Football was never the same...
Records of the class of 1894 at Cornell University list Glenn Scobey Warner as a law student. But as a law student, husky, alert Glenn Warner chafed at the legalisms of case books and lectures. So Warner went elsewhere for his mental work outs. In that era of knock-'em-down, drag-'em-out play, the burly (215 Ibs.) undergraduate set out to prove to Cornell and the world that brains mean as much as brawn in winning football games...
Peel talked the Cinerama people into providing the film, Warner Bros, into lending projectors, the U.S. Air Force into ferrying 35 tons of equipment (four projectors, 72 speakers and a special 62,000-watt generator, since Cinerama alone could use all of Damascus' electricity). Last week, by special engraved invitation, the first audience-1,500 Syrian bigwigs and their families-rode the roller coaster, toured the U.S. by airplane, while the sound track chorused America, the Beautiful. The bigwigs (and 400 others who crashed the gates) seemed a little bewildered by it all. Undaunted, Peel decided Cinerama...
...Dragnet (Warner) is the second major television show-I Love Lucy led the way with The Long, Long Trailer (TIME, Feb. 22 )-to make the tricky segue from the electronic to the silver screen. The transition is fairly well accomplished in a general way, though sometimes what goes big in the parlor gets lost in the movie house (e.g., the staccato monotone, urgent and effective when the actor is only ten inches high and has to exaggerate plenty to get attention, is just a meaningless affectation when he is 20 feet tall...
...Rome's mammoth Cinecitta, Troy was razed for the third time in 3,000 years as Warner Bros.' two-acre wood and papier-maché reproduction of the ancient city (for Helen of Troy) was 80% destroyed by fire. As betogaed extras battled the blaze, cameras churned away for an hour and a half, leaving Warner's hopeful that it could salvage some usable footage from a $95,000 holocaust...