Word: baxter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thriller, I Confess, is only fair-to-middling Hitchcock. Unlike his best movies, it is often verbal instead of visual. There is a talky courtroom trial and, unusual for Hitchcock, a soggily sentimental flashback depicting a romance between the priest before he entered the church and a girl (Anne Baxter) who later marries a member of the Quebec Parliament. In the leading role, Montgomery Clift frequently appears more deadpan than stoical. Most authentic touches: Karl Malden's portrait of a hard-working detective and some real Quebec backgrounds...
...Perchance Mr. [Beverley] Baxter might benefit from a bicycle trip through the good, solid American countryside. There he might find some who would be in a homey, talkative mood, thus imparting to him yet another side of U.S. life ... If it's conversation he wants, any housewife over here could bring him down to earth in nothing flat. He'd find that a good portion of us are college graduates, as are our husbands. We're usually a family of four with the usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets...
Born in Somerville, Mass., Baxter became an instructor in chemistry at Harvard in 1897, following his graduation from the College. In 1925 he assumed the Richards Professorship, which he held until his retirement...
...specialist in the study of atomic weights and other chemical constants, Baxter served as chairman of the International Committee on Atomic Weights from 1930 to 1947. During the war he was associated with the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...Baxter was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and Phi Beta Kappa...