Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bedford County (Pa.) authorities granted a group of citizens permission to exhume the body of World War II Veteran Reuben Rock. The soldier's body was dug up and stripped of its uniform, which was sprinkled with gasoline and burned. Then the body was dusted with salt, wrapped in a white sheet and gently reburied. Relatives announced that this was the only means of breaking a "hex" which he had cast on his widow, 22-year-old Mrs. Rosella Rock...
...Century-Fox), first filmed in 1922, was a brawling forerunner of today's semidocumentary, despite a sugary love story and the presence of Clara ("the It Girl") Bow, who was rolled aboard in a barrel. For the old silent version, Director Elmer Clifton persuaded the citizens of New Bedford, Mass, to supply the cash and most of the cast. Then he chartered a real whaler, and along with his cameramen and a crew of real whaling men, set out for the Caribbean to catch real whales...
...story, which happily bears no resemblance to the 1922 script, concerns three males. On the eve of his last voyage, old Captain Joy (Lionel Barrymore), New Bedford's No. 1 whaler, faces a dilemma. Should he once again take along his orphaned, sea-struck grandson (Dean Stockwell) or leave him ashore to catch up on his book learnin'? In Boston-trained Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) he finds a plot-making compromise. Lunceford, he figures, has enough schooling to keep both a ship and Little Jed's education afloat. After a slow, landlubberly beginning, the three of them...
20th Century-Fox's latest over-advertised bid for immortality is a sea story which can be classified as a pitiful imitation of "Captains Couragous." The plot, ostensibly concerned with the New Bedford whaling industry in the 1880's, is actually a dull treatise on child psychology and the problem of duty versus humanity...
...union had demanded the increase for 30,000 workers in the New Bedford-Fall River area, which traditionally sets the northern wage pattern in cotton. (But not for such basic industries as autos and steel.) Arbitrator Douglas V. Brown, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said no. In professorial tones, he warned that the industry faced "a decrease of an insufficient increase in demand." (Translation: business isn't very good...