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Deton Will Face Backus...
...lambasted Stevenson over the years as chronically unable to make up his mind, got it back when Stevenson was asked about Truman's on-again, off-again attitude toward attending the convention: "The trouble with Harry is that he's indecisive." Added Actor-Director Jim Backus: "It is a disgrace that Harry Truman is not coming. It's the same as Sam Snead not going to the Republican Convention...
...rich woman's Vic Tanny, which last week opened its $300-a-week rooms, whirlpool baths and scented steam chambers to men. All week, the youth seekers submitted to facials, manicures, pedicures, aromatic oilings, honey packs and pummeling by a benevolently mechanical Iron Maiden. Actor Jim (Mr. Magoo) Backus, 46, his intricate schedule pinned to his sweatshirt, worked up special enthusiasm for lip-stretching, wrinkle-reducing maneuvers that pulled his mouth from ear to ear. Actor and Health Faddist Robert Cummings, 50, gyrated in a wild tangle with Boy Scout staves...
...acting throughout Rebel is of the highest caliber, and Dean receives a great deal of support from Jim Backus as the pathetic father trying to fulfill his son's image of him. The family scene following the chickie run is a great example of high-pitched acting at its best...
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