Word: broomsticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell, Book and Candle (Phoenix; Columbia). John Van Druten's comedy about the contemporary prevalence of witches cast enough of a spell on theatergoers to give it a six-month run on Broadway. But somewhere between Broadway and Hollywood the broomstick broke down. Like the play, the picture is about a beautiful witch (Kim Novak) who decides to exchange cantrip and gramarye for love and marriage, and about the man (James Stewart) she sets out to enchant. The part is almost perfectly written for Actress Novak. The script quickly announces that as a witch she is not supposed...
...meanwhile, the Administration might meditate upon the fact that while students are walking the mile from the Business School lot to the Yard, the streets of Cambridge remain uncleaned despite their looming emptiness. Perhaps the real solution to the parking problem is to put a broomstick on every undergraduate bumper and allow parking everywhere...
...Broomstick Would Do. Yet for all the rivalry, hard-working servicemen and civilian specialists along the whole broad front of U.S. missilery felt a new nearness to space as Explorer radioed back its readings (see SCIENCE). And of the legions of scientists, generals, admirals, engineers and administrators at work on missiles and man-made moons, German-born Wernher von Braun, 45, best personified man's accelerating drive to rise above the planet. Von Braun, in fact, has only one interest: the conquest of space, which he calls man's greatest venture. To pursue his lifelong dream...
...been in it long enough to be very conservative, to want to improve what we've got rather than begin by building what we haven't." So long as the frontiers of space are broken, Wernher von Braun does not care how; he would happily ride a broomstick into the heavens...
...Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with buttons and Zippers fixed to the pages) to a growing number of teen-age novels (Girl Trouble, etc.) that compete with adult books...