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...scholarship "as the best all-round man" in the class. He stayed on for an M.A., took his Ph.D. at London University. Then he got a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin, took out U.S. citizenship papers, and with a young English wife settled down in a remodeled barn for what he thought was a lifetime of philosophy and writing...
...writer of pulp thrillers and children's stories, Not in Our Stars has won the $2,500 Macmillan Centenary Award. With an impressively technical knowledge of modern milk-producing, a smooth, unpretentious narrative style, and a good ear for dialogue, Author Greene makes his managers, drivers, barn boys and farm wives real, unpleasant and very much alive...
...M.G.M.) is a leisurely, kindly story of life among Scandinavian-blooded Wisconsin farmers. Farmer Jacobson (Edward G. Robinson) has set his heart on building a finer barn than he can afford, but the needs of his own family and the burning of the barn of a prosperous neighbor (Morris Carnovsky) give him bigger and better ideas. His somewhat selfish daughter (Margaret O'Brien) loves a calf named Elizabeth, but her neighbor's misfortune inspires her to give up Elizabeth-an act which dissolves the whole countryside in similar generosity. One glowing convert is a city-bred schoolteacher (Frances...
...moon was clear in a still, star-frosted sky. In nearby Washington's Crossing and New Hope on the Delaware River the sirens and automobile horns had stopped their clamor. The old fire engine which had clanged happily around the green-banked dirt roads was back in its barn...
...play Mary Magdalene in 1940, has since disqualified herself by acquiring a husband and two children.) Sure of a role is Hans Zwink, Judas in 1934, who follows in the steps of his father (Judas), grandfather (Peter) and great-grandfather (Christus). The current Christus, Alois Lang, lives in a barn behind his family's famed hotel (now Divisional HQ). Only possible hindrance to 54-year-old Lang's candidacy will be the grueling ordeal of hanging for 30 minutes on the cross...