Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meadows on Worcester Road near Framingham is also a favorite dance-and drink spot, renowned for its inepensive cocktails. The afore-mentioned Novak's is making a new bid for the college crowd. Located on Beacon Street in the Long-wood section, it is especially pleasant in the spring and summer...
...second time on the screen this month, the F.B.I. relentlessly tracks down its red prey. But while its success is due to modern science in Walk East on Beacon, it is due on ancient fate and blind luck in The Atomic City . Save for a junior, tow-headed edition of Lanny Budd on a bicycle and a raffle ticket, Joe Stalin might be sitting in the White House even now, the country's cities in ruins...
Walk East on Beacon (Louis de Rochemont; Columbia) presents some typically melodramatic movie doings in semi-documentary style: a Communist spy ring attempts to worm some mysterious top-secret plans from a refugee scientist (Finlay Currie) through threats against his son, who is being held prisoner in Germany's Soviet zone. While the scientist feeds the spies false information, an FBI man (George Murphy) and his helpers close in on the gang after a series of chases on foot, by automobile and by boat...
...real espionage cases of Soviet Agent Harry Gold and Britain's Atomic Scientist Klaus Fuchs, the picture develops its anti-Red theme in such simple blacks & whites that it becomes a rather obvious thriller. In Alfred Werker's plodding direction of a talky screenplay. Walk East on Beacon moves at a too-leisurely pace for an action picture. Lending a bit of credulity to the proceedings are actual backgrounds filmed in Washington, New Hampshire and Boston...
...think this means we will probably end up with a room of our own somewhere," Hammer said last night, "but I doubt whether we will construct a club building now." The Yale Club's former lodgings on Beacon Hill were closed several years ago, he said, due to high costs and lack of member support...