Word: forth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Over a 3.4-mile course on the New Hampshire Turnpike last week, two small cars sped back & forth, competing in a miles-per-gallon mileage test. The cars were Nash's new "Rambler," and Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s "Henry J.," making its first public appearance. The Henry J. made 34 miles to the gallon, v. the Rambler...
...general kept going back & forth between his rock pile and the jeep where the artillery spotters were adjusting artillery fire. He gave an order here, congratulated a spotter there. "Haven't had so much fun since I was a lieutenant," he said, rubbing his balding head and picking up his glasses...
...keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many a moviegoer may find Director Lean...
Last week Maggiolo persuaded both sides to settle down to intensive, almost continuous negotiations to work one out. In one room in his offices he put W.T. & S. reprsentatives. Newspaper Guild negotiators were put in another room near by. Maggiolo and fellow mediators shuttled back & forth between the rooms, relaying terms. At 5:15 a.m. one day last week, the dog-tired, red-eyed negotiators finally came to terms. As they shook hands, World-Telly Managing Editor B. O. McAnney said: "I am very happy that both sides have reached an agreement we can live under." As such...
...Hard Times. The Authors Lockridge (who own three Siamese) would rather see all the world's ailurophobes pass away than think for a second of removing a single cat. Nonetheless, for all their felinophilia, they approach the cat question with fairness and restraint, setting forth their arguments in a manner that is always urbane and suave, rarely downright catty...