Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps called XP-39. Slim as a lance, it ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail...
...focus. She is magnificent. Russell Simpson is owlish Pa Joad. He is also a million men who plough, seed and harvest U. S. farms. Only star used was Henry Fonda (Tom Joad). For him the part was a throwback to one of his best roles, the young lineman in Slim. Others like John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Zeffie Tilbury, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Frank Darien have played minor roles in pictures for years and played them well. Each was as essential to The Grapes of Wrath as its scores of Okies, filling station men, cops, deputies. And each is right...
Gone are such luminaries as Artie Johns, Lupe Lupien, Dick Grondahl, Slim Curtiss, and Bob Gannett--not to mention Rud Hoye and Joe Soltz, dependable outer gardeners. In addition, an appendectomy has forced right fielder Bill Tully to drop out of school this year. All told, Stahl is left with Captain Tom Healey and Bob Fulton as his only experienced battery, shortstop Fred Keyes, and left fielder Gene Lovett...
When George Washington Rightmire retired as president in 1938, the faculty, confidentially polled, proposed as his successor slim, efficient James Lewis Morrill, vice president of the university, or (second choice) Howard Landis Bevis, a Harvard law professor who had been an Ohio Supreme Court judge and finance director for two Governors. The trustees, unable to agree on Morrill or Bevis, considered more than a score of bigwig outsiders, deadlocked on some, were turned down by others (notably Chicago's famed Physicist Arthur H. Compton). Last week, after an angry hour and a half, peace, as it must...