Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Simmons is spirited in the role, however, and does capture some of the wistfulness which distinguished Years Ago from standard A Star Is Born cliches. Teresa Wright, who always appeared to be a pretty girl, is made to look careworn and greying as the mother. But an even greater error in judgment than this is the showing of the film on the new Panoramic screen. Since this greatly magnifies the picture, quick movements flicker and blur. Besides this, Spencer Tracy is now not only in front of the viewer but on each side as well. It seems a misuse...
...Russian-built MIG jet fighter that dropped onto Korea's Kimpo airport was all crated and on its way by air transport to Ohio's Wright-Patterson field last week when the U.S. Defense Department handed down its ruling: the MIG was not a legitimate prize of war because it had been surrendered by its pilot after the armistice. The crated aircraft was grounded en route -reportedly at Okinawa-and the U.N. command announced that it was canceling its offer of $50,000 reward for additional MIGs. Furthermore, it offered to return this one to its "rightful owner...
...Heflin feels that a series of weekly TV shows, for a movie actor, "can very easily mean the complete destruction of his career in motion pictures. The audience gets used to getting something for nothing, and then does not want to turn around and pay for it." Teresa Wright, after giving occasional TV performances, sniffs at television's dramatic works: "They're mostly soap operas. It's just like making a cheap film...
...Harvard Band, with fifty-one new members, will make its first appearance of the season Saturday when the Crimson team meets Ohio University. Fifty of the additions will be freshmen culled from the 93 who auditioned for places on the band. But the top new man will be G. Wright Briggs, Jr. '31, named Monday as Conductor to succeed the late Malcolm H. Holmes...
Bundy was appointed to the chairmanship of the Department in June, succeeding Rupert N. Emerson '22, who had held the post for the previous five years. Former heads of the Government Department have been Benjamin Wright '25 and A. Lawrence Lowell...