Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...script had been carefully polished, as a major production should be, and Director Aly Khan had rehearsed the Lausanne police and the Lausanne-Palace Hotel staff time & again. As soon as Leading Lady Rita Hayworth felt the first labor pains, Aly was to pick up a phone on a private wire and simply breathe the secret password: "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre [Maryborough-is going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then...
...first is technical accuracy. Cavalrymen did not wear dress uniforms into battle, as they do in "Buffalo Bill." Given the better part of Montana to fight in, they presumably did not pick a deep and narrow gulch, largely under water, while hordes of enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine...
Details came from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. As soon as funds are available, said the Academy, it will grant a series of five-year fellowships, named in honor of the late Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, for research and analysis in naval history. The Academy planned to pick its Forrestal fellows both from the Navy and from university faculties. It hoped their work, like Mahan's in his day, would help in determining what the Navy's role should be. The only obstacle to making the grants at once: no Government funds were available. The Navy...
When its top executive echelon was killed in an air crash in Canada last fall (TIME, Sept. 19), Kennecott Copper Corp., biggest U.S. copper producer, started scouting for replacements. Last week the directors reached outside the industry to pick a new president. He is Charles R. Cox, 58, president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest steel-producing subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp...
...Town's pace slows noticeably only once: toward the end, a clumsily inserted (though well designed and danced) ballet recapitulates most of the story. After that, things pick right up with a lively chase across the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island...