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Late last week the jetliner screeched airborne at McGuire for the trip home, was rated during its less-than-top-speed takeoff as noisy as most jets, far louder than prop and turboprop planes...
...ignore a good prop, especially in the presence of photographers, Mathieu once donned helmet and greaves to paint his The Battle of Bonvines (TIME, March 7, 1955). For Tokyo, what else, but a kimono? Arriving at the base ment of the Shirokiya department store, where a crowd of Japanese were already straining at the wire barrier, Mathieu stripped, donned a loose, flowing blue-and-white yukata. girded himself with a black waist sash, topped off with a red hachimaki wound round his head...
...becomes a playwright, Johnston said, "The only way to get your play read if you're a woman is to become secretary to the boss or prop girl at the theatre--in order to get to know the people who will eventually make decisions on scripts. On Friday say, 'I'll fix that for you over the weekend,' then come back with it done on Monday. The Big Boss thinks you're clever and you have a foot-hold on the ladder...
...elaborate weather-warning system so he would get the word as soon as a rare clear day began to dawn. For three months Bryson matched guesses with the Weather Bureau, peered disconsolately through smog, cruised 1,668 miles by car, flew uncounted thousands of miles more in prop planes, jets and helicopters (at times dangling out of the belly of the helicopter to get low aerial shots). In Southern California, he soon discovered, it is hard to find a camera angle that does not include a top-secret defense installation. "Every time I set up that long lens," he said...
Further, Claman said, artists, technical and publicity workers, prop, costume and general production staff will also be recruited. Although previous experience is desired, Claman noted, it should not be considered necessary...