Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fouled up the peace news? At bars where newsmen gather, pinning the blame will be a soul-searching pastime for years to come. But that miscarriage of news and the possibilities of similar miscarriages posed a bigger problem than the morals of the Associated Press's Ed-ward Kennedy, whose "scoop" went sour...
...fire ax came flying out of the principal's office. After the ax came a boy about 5 ft. tall, a stranger in P.S. 12. He wore a peaked cap, a black leather jacket, and yellow trousers with blue stripes down the seams. When a crowd began to gather, the boy took to his heels, led a chase through the corridors, turned a corner and vanished...
...could have discovered the cure for cancer. Under one of these Christian crosses, or beneath a Jewish Star of David, there may rest now a man who was destined to be a great prophet. . . . Now they lie here silently in this sacred soil, and we gather to consecrate this earth to their memory...
Short (43 minutes) and inexpensive (about $30,000), the film is simply titled United States. It was written, directed, and produced by greying, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Eric Ambler, author of distinguished and popular thrillers (Journey Into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). To gather his material, Ambler spent about five weeks in the U.S. viewing close to a million feet of film, spent many more poring over volumes of Americana. The final product is a composite of snatches from U.S. films-by Pare Lorentz, the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the MARCH OF TIME-and original scenes photographed in Wembley...
...drives to work in a Chevrolet which she expects "to have some intelligence itself." Midmorning, her executive, Mrs. Tova Petersen Wiley, and the rest of her staff gather in her office for coffee and a conference. That is where problems really get thrashed out, to be settled later more formally...