Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Returning to the U.S., he hit the lecture trail-a tall, gentle man with an open Midwestern face and the anxious, intent eyes of an Elijah. In one year he spent more than one-third of his nights in sleeping cars. He left the Times. He and his wife sent their children to college and lived on what he made from his lectures and an occasional article. He organized Federal Union, Inc. as the holding company of his crusade. After France fell, he scraped together $2,385 in cash and promises and bought a full-page ad in the Times...
Among the AEC's now jobs is work on a submarine for the Navy. The submarine, Pike said, might be able to cruise 15,000 miles at 18 to 30 knots "without leaving a trail of oxygen," that might betray the ship...
...even in Plainview Lavern Roach still heard the roar of the crowd and the money-jingling song of the promoters. Last week, after three tune-up fights along the comeback trail, Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Roach shuffled his feet in the rosin box at Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena and waited for the bell. The memory of what "Cerdan did to him had apparently faded; he insisted that he felt as strong and fast as ever...
Every event except the downhill, which will be held on the Thunderbolt, class A trail at Pittsfield, will be run at williamstown. These include the slalom, cross-country, and jump. Hart is expected to lead Harvard to a high position in cross country, and abbot should do well in the alpine events...
Critics have praised De Siea for his realism in scenes which occur as the trail leads the father and son to an open-air bicycle market, a medium's home, and a bordello. Unlike the forthright realism of his "Shoeshine," however De Siea's treatment here is often contrived. At one point the boy falls into a puddle while running after his father, an incident which seems injected for the sole purpose of proving the film's spontaneity of detail. The photography is consistently fine, but at times it also appears too forced for true dramatic impact...