Word: baxter
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Bedevilled (MGM) is an ecclesiastical striptease that comes repulsively close to what might be called priestitution. A young American (Steve Forrest), on his way to study for holy orders, stops over in Paris to take in the sights. Pretty soon he takes one of them (Anne Baxter) for a ride in a cab; from there the picture goes to heaven in a hack...
...good teacher is likely to be a born ham, according to the University of Southern California's Shakespearian expert, Dr. Frank Baxter. Dr. Baxter's diagnosis explains why more and more professors are drifting from their cloistered halls to the glaring arena of television. After his Now and Then show ran for 39 weeks on the CBS network, Professor Baxter became a real celebrity and admits that he has enjoyed every minute of it. He turns up at movie premiéres and Hollywood cocktail parties, gets invited to the Library of Congress to give poetry readings...
...professorial success stories are not without cost. Campus TV celebrities run into a good deal of envious carping criticism from their colleagues. And there is the equal danger that the celebrities will grow too big for their professorial britches. Dr. Baxter, 59, recognizes that he has to be periodically cut down to size by his wife and daughter, who now greet him with "Here comes that pudgy, tweedy, twinkling, pink, bald bunch of enthusiasm." One of his wife's comments may be even more pertinent: "Thank God this didn't happen to you 30 years...
...Private Freddie Dwyer and while the two were tangling, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen ran off with Santee's world indoor mile record (TIME, Feb. 14). Thoroughly chastened and uncommonly quiet, Wesley went home to Lawrence, Kans. to train. When the starter's gun cracked for the Baxter Mile last week at the New York Athletic Club games, Wes wanted to be ready to unwind with the race of his life...
Santee was finished; Nielsen was fading fast. While the two leaders had run themselves rubber-legged, Dwyer had timed himself perfectly. He crossed the line in 4:06.2, a new Baxter record. Some 65 yards back was Nielsen, the world's fastest indoor miler. And three yards behind him staggered Wes Santee. the Kansas cyclone that had blown itself...