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...last month Ingram stopped at the farm of Aubrey Boswell, a white neighbor. He wanted to borrow a trailer to haul his hay. Ingram saw one of the Boswell children walking toward the tobacco barn carrying a hoe. He walked across the road, he said, and through a field knee-high in corn, looking for Boswell. When he got closer and saw only "three boys," he turned back. He went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: Assault at 50 Feet | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Producer Todd's first Cinerama production, budgeted at $700,000 and scheduled for release next winter, will carry one of cinema's most distinguished names on its list of credits: Director Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film. It will be a glorified trailer, shot in color, and intended to show just what Cinerama can do that ordinary movies cannot. Sample items: a helicopter flight over Niagara Falls, the Salzburg Festival, Shakespearean plays at Stratford-on-Avon, possibly the Sadler's Wells Ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Third Dimension | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Eloquent Answer? But the trailer, however impressive, will be mainly a demonstration of the new technique. Mike Todd will be shooting for more solid entertainment in his second production, plans a $2,000,000 dramatic spectacle with music or a Cineramadaptation of a surefire Broadway musical. Cinerama's projection equipment (estimated cost: $40,000-$70,000) can be installed almost anywhere from Radio City Music Hall to the neighborhood movie houses, as long as the theater is not too narrow. Todd plans to install it first only in a single Manhattan theater, then in one house in each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Third Dimension | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...citizens of Blooming Grove and Texans for miles around turned out to honor 39-year-old Jim Sewell. He came up from Austin with his wife Janet and their two-year-old son Jimmy to give the commencement address at the Consolidated High School. Next day, a big truck trailer was pulled up in front of the First State Bank for a speakers' platform. There were speeches and telegrams predicting that he would one day be governor. Mrs. G. E. Ramsey, who taught him grammar, said: "Jim, I'm wearing red shoes and a red flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: I Wish I Could Tell You | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Home Cooking. Near Marietta, Ohio, after wondering what all the tooting and waving was about, Motorists Russell and Zora Johnson stopped their car, looked around, discovered that their house trailer had burned down to its axles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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