Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic Number. As the Pacific Express roared down the runway into the night, six of the bounced airmen clustered around a Red Cross worker in Colonel Platt's terminal. At Red Cross suggestion, A/1C Cole Y. Bell, trying to make it to an injured brother's bedside at Fort Campbell, Ky., tried to telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under...
...dirty lyin' skunk," the man in the black hat snarled. "Reach for them plowhandles an' I'll blow ya in half-pocket-high!" Such scenes of life in the wild but carefully censored West are familiar to every watcher of Zworykin's magic lamp these days. But how many western fans or foes are aware of what goes on behind the scenes? Of horses that make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas...
...into the territorial campaign with a plea aimed directly at the whites. Only his party, he insisted, could get independence for the Federation and thus free the white settlers at last from the tiresome interference of the Colonial Office do-gooders in London. Sir Roy hoped to get a "magic 16" of the elected votes on a council where total membership (including appointees...
Many of the blacks deliberately threw their support to the ultra-racist Dominion Party in order to deny Sir Roy his magic 16. In doing so, they ignored the call of their most extremist leaders to boycott the election, and turned out 80% strong to exercise their right to vote and to show their faith in constitutional means...
...Magic with Mary Martin (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). A superspecial Easter egg, live and in color. Part I is for the kids: songs from Cinderella and Peter Pan, plus an original new work by Richard Rodgers' two composer-daughters. In Part II, Music with Mary Martin (NBC, 8-9 p.m.), Mary does songs from her own Broadway musicals...