Word: playground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school to be weighed. For every 5.5 Ibs., a student would get one point, and one student earned as many as 250 points in the course of six months. Finally, the students had enough in the kitty (11,000 DM) to make a down payment on a new playground...
...failed. Instead, while she locked up the family dog, he ambushed Smith in the garage and tried to beat him to death with a bottle. When Smith recovered, Wolf decided to use dynamite. Last week he went to the Smith home, supposedly to fix up a backyard swing and playground as a birthday present for Susan Smith, who was turning three. Wolf brought ten sticks of blasting dynamite and put them under the front seat of Smith's Buick, with wires hidden under the floor mat but not attached to the ignition, so there was no danger. Two nights...
Juvenile delinquency in public schools is an important theme, with great possibilities for dramatic treatment. When The Blackboard Jungle meets this problem directly, in the classroom and playground scenes, the movie is at its best. But when it tries to tie in the marriage problems of teacher Charles Dadier (the class calls him Mr. Daddy-o) with his student nemesis, it loses momentum, and sloshes through several weepy scenes involving his washed-out little wife, played by Anne Francis...
...wash-the works." Fort Worth's successful Western Hills Motel (TIME, July 9, 1951) goes a step farther with a separate block of rooms for guests' maids and chauffeurs. In Santa Monica, Calif, the big $1,500,000 William Tell Motel, which offers a swimming pool, playground, TV and air conditioning, all set in a lush tropical atmosphere, now faces stiff competition from the newer, $600,000 Highlander Motor Hotel, built with all the standard luxuries plus piped-in music, a sun deck, and heated swimming pool...
...star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended to use to build a playground, if she discontinued her act. For his good Samaritanism, this week Stainless has a knife thrown squarely into his chest (see cut). But he had the foresight to outfit himself with a wooden vest...