Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee could still feel the ground shaking. He swiftly took the pulse of his cabinet and his opposition, and decided to hustle off to Washington for a personal conference with the President. From the U.S. embassy in London came an urgent query: Could Clem Attlee fly over? Secretary of State Acheson got on the private wire to the White House. Fifteen minutes later he cabled back one urgent word: "Agree...
After a race riot, in which colored gangs jump the gun and attack the whites on their own ground, an autopsy proves the doctor innocent. Biddle is unconvinced. This stalemate is the point, and the logical climax, of the film. As the action continues, with Biddle's vendetta against the doctor, the characters resolve into more familiar type-patterns: the man who hates Negroes because he himself was involved, the doctor who must treat the man he hates. But the ending is still inconclusive. The doctor has won his life, others have died, but nothing has been changed...
Pollard, a devastating fullback, would get up from the ground shaking his head. On one play, a Navy end was planted in the Army backfield just as Pollard took a handoff and was prepared to start around end. And it was Pollard, withal Army's meet Successful ground gainer, who was indirectly responsible for Navy's first touchdown. Instead of falling on an errant pitchout by Blaik, he kept trying to pick the ball up until finally Middle Captain Tom Bakke broke through and recovered the ball. It was a key play, and Pollard handled it poorly, but then army...
...good, lively, lowdown musical. Using fleece-lined tough material of Damon Runyon's, it takes a full-in-the-face but indulgent view of Broadway's cop-fleeing dice players and their dolls. What results, if not always authentic, is raffish and picturesque, and though it seems ground out here & there, at least it is freshly ground...
...leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...