Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Alaska. It, he said, is "so important that it should be considered above the others." He recommended putting a radar screen around the U.S.'s highly vulnerable Arctic border with Russia. He recommended putting an infantry battalion in each of the three major Alaskan air bases. (The Joint Chiefs of Staff have long wanted more troops in Alaska but the Army and Air Force do not have enough housing for them.) "I don't cry wolf," said Ike. "I merely say that that looks like one inadequacy that we could cure with reasonable expenditure...
That seemed to leave the brass ring to his opponent, handsome, spirited Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (wife of Cinemaqtor Melvyn Douglas), who ten years ago had given up the Broadway stage and the Hollywood screen to turn a purposeful hand to politics...
...Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). The Dark Mirror, with Olivia de Havilland...
...their roles as the grass-roots demagogue and his hard-bitten secretary in All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford won the Academy Award for the year's best male performance and radio's Mercedes McCambridge, playing her first screen part, took the Oscar for the best job by a supporting actress. The Academy voted the best-actress award (her second) to Olivia de Havilland for playing the jilted wallflower in The Heiress, and recognized a bald Dean Jagger's retread adjutant in Twelve O'Clock High as the best male supporting performance...
...work last week on the script of his latest movie, the first since Monsieur Verdoux drooped at the box office in 1947. Called Footlights, it was to go into production late this summer, with Comedian Chaplin supported by his son, 24-year-old Sidney Chaplin, in his first screen role. The story will deal with a clown who has lost the ability to make people laugh. The source for this much information was son Sidney, who noted: "People will think it's about my father's own life, but I know my father well enough to know...