Word: stairway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangers of a great city, like those of the jungle, often leave little time for thought. When smoke boiled into her 1½-room Brooklyn flat one morning last week, Mrs. Irma Randall did not hesitate. A kerosene stove had tipped over downstairs and flame was roaring up the stairway in solid sheets. After one look, she ran to the window...
...have a one-shot chance tonight to see one of the best movie fantasies ever made. "Stairway to Heaven" is about a wartime British flyer who is shuttled about a bit by heavenly bureaucracy; it combines quietly plausible acting with some spectacularly implausible technicolor photography. Kim Hunter is very pretty, and Stairway's heavenly stairway is one of a spate of remarkable sets. It is no movie to miss
Breaking Points. In Chicago, Peter Musick admitted smashing eight plate-glass windows because "it gave me a sense of fulfillment." In New Albany, Ind., when Tenant Frank Collins refused to pay his rent on the ground that it was above the OPA ceiling, Landlord William Deatrick chopped down the stairway entrance to Collins' apartment...
...hour and a half later the course, which included Tallulah's rumbling rendition of Juliet's balcony scene on the hotel stairway, was over and memories were considerably freshened. One waiter muttered in stark wonder: "Nothing like this has ever happened here before...
...whisked the U.S. envoy off with a car of ministers on a tour of one of her Social Aid Foundation's new hospitals. The elevators were not yet ready, so she marched the party up & down the seven floors of the building. As they puffed up one stairway, Finance Minister Ramon Cereijo wheezed: "Where's the psychotherapy ward? I'm ready to go in." All agreed that Evita, talking warmly and frankly with "Amiga Miller" about how much she wanted the U.S. and Argentina to be friends and work together, put on a terrific performance...