Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than that, it was revealed last week, a Harriman candidacy was the main topic at a secret meeting of Democratic wheel horses from twelve western states in Denver early in March. The most listened-to man at that meeting: Indiana's Frank
...enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed but heaven-bound Mama (who apparently materializes for Tony somewhere in the vacant last four rows of the second balcony) for guidance. Tony then sings an ode about how "Young People Dance, Old People Watch," and the chorus grab their girls and have...
...Cure. In Victoria, B.C., Norris Harwood was fined $35 for careless driving after he took his car out at 4 a.m. to end an attack of insomnia, smashed into a parked truck when he fell asleep at the wheel...
With his wife at the wheel of their car, Britain's brittle Earl Attlee, 73, went on to a dinner in London after a collision. Later, X rays showed why Attlee did not enjoy the party: two broken ribs...
Amiable Idiots. In The Fifth Wheel, Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS) seemed to have an engaging little item. It was made up of a couple of crooks, a couple of priests, the Never Worry Finance Co., a magenta automobile that one of the priests calls Rosey, and $35,000 in cash, robbed from a bank, that the crooks have hidden in Rosey's spare tire. Unfortunately, neither the author, the director nor the actors seemed to realize that the strength of farce rests on credibility and surprise. The incidents that were not predictable were unbelievable, and both crooks...