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...Baxter Springs, Kans. last week, engineers of the Root Co. demonstrated a power lawnmower which hardly needs an operator. After being run once around the lawn, the mower is steered by an electronic feeler which is guided by the uncut long grass. The mower, to be made for Fairbanks, Morse next year, will probably sell...
...heaviest fire against the government's plan came, surprisingly, from its own benches. Canadian-born Conservative Beverly Baxter, who is also theater critic for the London Evening Standard, revealed that he was "fortunate" enough to visit the U.S. every winter, and he warned that horrific tales about American TV are not exaggerated: "To sit over there through a three-or four-hour sponsored program is to come under a terrorization of mass suggestion of advertising. I mean this seriously. The American girl, for example, is supposed to be the finest of her kind in the world. She is supposed...
Christmas Hymn. The white paper reminded Baxter of a rather old story-an offer once made by Beecham's liver pills to provide a church with hymn books in return for a bit of concealed advertising. One Christmas, said Baxter, the congregation found itself singing...
Nevertheless, because he would rather have "sponsored programs than a Socialist government," Baxter and other Tories voted reluctantly with their party, in favor of the white paper. They consoled themselves with the reflection that TV licenses will not be issued to private enterprisers until the long-term defense program is well over the hump. For the next five years at least, Britain's "mature and sophisticated" public seems safe from the blandishments of commercial plugs...
Miriam Hopkins plays a fairly refined camp follower, while her companion has been transformed for purposes of movie romance into a good girl (Anne Baxter) who has misguidedly fallen in with a bad man (Cameron Mitchell). In the end, a handsome gambler (Dale Robertson) with a Southern drawl and a heart of gold chokes the bad man and redeems Anne with his love. Now & then the picture has some forcefully directed scenes, but this Outcasts emerges, on the whole, as flat movie drama...