Word: alan
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Beyond Glory (Paramount) is a canonization of West Point and Model Cadet Alan Ladd. At the start Ladd is accused by an ex-plebe (Conrad Janis) of hazing beyond the line of duty, and of lying to bring about the plebe's expulsion. As the story unravels in flashbacks, things look pretty black for the hero. Before he came to West Point he fought in World War II, and apparently his best friend died in battle because Ladd was a c-w-rd. And now Ladd is engaged to the poor fellow's widow (Donna Reed...
...Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who has twice cut John Lewis down to human size, gave the railway brotherhoods a piece of his mind last week. He made permanent his temporary order prohibiting the railway firemen, engineers and switchmen from going on strike...
...last week John L. got a big break from Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who has twice slapped big fines on him. Judge Goldsborough dismissed the pension fund suits, adding that a $100-a-month pension for miners above 62 was "meager ... just enough to keep the miners from being objects of charity...
...Hamlet tries more desperately than at any other time to come to terms with himself. How all occasions do inform against me is important self-revelation and great poetry as well; but that, too, had to go-along with Fortinbras. Sometimes Olivier and his co-editor, Alan Dent, have gone out of their way to save a small jewel (The bird of dawning singeth all night long). But now & then, apparently for the sake of pace, they needlessly throw something overboard...