Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wife to lunch at one of Manhattan's best restaurants, Le Pavilion (Saumon Fumé, $3; Germiny aux Paillettes, $3; Pigeonneau aux Olives. $6; coffee, 70?. Afterward, they strolled the few steps up 57th Street toward the corner of Park Avenue, underneath the windows of the Ritz Tower, where lives, among others,TV Star (What's My Line?) Arlene Francis* with her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, and her 13-year-old son. As the Rodeckers walked by, a maid in the Gabel's eighth-floor apartment began removing a screen from a window. The screen-a substitute...
...Samuel Goldwyn Jr.; M-G-M), the fourth film version of Mark Twain's fictional portrait of the artist as a young rube, has suffered the melancholy fate of Old Hank Bunker. "Old Hank," said Huck, "he . . . fell off the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it." Moviegoers may now see it, thanks to Sam Goldwyn Jr., who spent...
...project for the Fund for the Republic this summer, will conduct a seminar at Union next fall, and work for Columbia University's Institute for War and Peace Studies. Looking back last week over his 32 years at Union. Niebuhr noted in an article in the Union Seminary Tower how much the theological climate had changed during that third of a century. Few men have had so strong a hand in bringing about the change as Reinhold Niebuhr himself...
...networks ran only newscasts and, later, highlights), Commentator Dimbleby described the princess tensely awaiting the walk to the altar, reassuringly reminded his audience of "the comforting, tall, friendly and alert figure of the Duke of Edinburgh, on whose right arm she can rely." He sifted the guests ("What a tower of strength Lady Churchill is"), spoke as the Voice of England when the bride's coach left the Abbey: "All of us wish, as she goes back through London, that her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peaceful...
...Britannia, Dimbleby met the severest test of his career: Margaret and Tony were late, leaving Dick Dimbleboom to fill the BBC air with 55 minutes of spontaneous prose. It was a pukka job, a splendid sort of flight of the Dimbleby. He talked fluently of the Thames, sturdily of Tower Bridge, thickly of the city's occasional fog. Five helicopters coptered overhead. Mounting to lance, Dimbleby told his audience: "If I had a really good air gun, I'd know what to do with those five." When the couple arrived at last, Dimbleby sent the princess "down Father...