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...shelled out $175,000 for the screen rights to The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history (800,000 copies) of Operation Overlord. In the course of the next year he bought up five scriptwriters, five directors, 37 military advisers and 42-no, it's not a misprint-42 stars.* Then, to the horror of economy-minded Congressmen, Zanuck somehow managed, in effect, to rent several thousand U.S. servicemen and 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing. On top of that, he hit the British for 1,000 paratroopers and the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Operation Overblown | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...home runs, I never did, and I never will. I don't hold it against anybody." Runnells even forgives baseball's record keepers for spelling his name wrong; a Marine sergeant dropped the last l in an intra-service box score in 1947, and the misprint has never been corrected. In the Baseball Register, the program, the newspapers-and even on the silver bat he got when he won his first batting crown in 1960-his last name is spelled with only one l. Drawls Runnells, who now signs autographs with one l himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Forgotten Man | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

Because of a misprint advising Radcliffe undergraduates sectioning was to be later in the day, very few girls were among the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Soc Sci Course Refuses 400 Students | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

Disclosing seven other positions, Nancy L. Proger '59, former president of SGA, said that a misprint on the ballot caused "indecisive results" in a vote between Emily L. Hartshorne '62 and Judianne Rood '62 for alternate NSA delegate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Selects Officers of SGA | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...enough). Step.2. "Lift the handset." (Yes.) Step 3. "Listen for the dial tone before dialing. This steady humming sound tells you that the dial equipment is ready for your call." (Boy! This is one hum we want to hear talk!) Step 4. "Go to heck." (This is surely a misprint, else, first steps are indeed misleading!) Then, there can be no mistake, it says: "One and two party line WOodlawn customers can dial direct to all offices in this directory." Now this is service! From the cemetery to you! At last, communication with the beyond...

Author: By Gavin R.w.scott, | Title: The Numbers Racket | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

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