Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Believing that it had a movie of "special interest to the college student," Twentieth Century Fox staged a special snap preview of "Johnny Apollo" some seven weeks ago in Ossining, New York. They picked Ossining because the hero, to say nothing of most of the semi-minor characters, resides during the last forty-five minutes of the movie in a certain notorious neo-Gothic villa of that town. They invited the reviewers of thirty college newspapers to serve as an audience because the same hero spends the first three minutes in college and thereby creates what Mr. Zanuck-presumably calls...