Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets, and coaxed from a group of inexperienced youngsters (some of whom showed up for work with switchblades) a series of magnificent life studies. One unforgettable moment: Ellen O'Mara as the Fat Girl, at a school dance in the arms of the English teacher (Patrick Bedford) she idolizes, her square pudding face aglow in awe and beatification. At such moments, rare in cinematic annals, the camera uses unadorned reality as its point of departure and comes around full circle...
CORONET BLUE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Jack Cassidy stars as a shady character who sets out to frame Michael Alden (Frank Converse) for murder. Brian Bedford and Brenda Vaccaro are also featured guests...
...chiefly provided by Bob Dishy as a zany, Teutonically accented technician of ever-improving death machines who is always ready to sell his services to the highest bidder. The cast delivers the lines as if they were quotations, and even such accomplished performers as Howard Da Silva and Brian Bedford seem a trifle stilted. Christopher Walken, however, breathes radiant innocence into the unknown soldier, and stirs the only honest emotion of the evening...
...groupings are launching experimental programs. New York City's begins next September, Chicago's started last winter, and 400-odd others are under way. This year, for the first time, the Federal Government is awarding two grants specifically in the field, to help plan model courses in Bedford, Mass., and New Orleans. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which hitherto has given the subject a wide berth, is taking the plunge. The New York Archdiocese has prepared a "Program of Family Life Education" for its 400 parishes. Catholic-run Fordham University will offer next September a series of lectures...
...Rivington's Gazette reported that "the rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp of the rebels, burned and destroyed their whole baggage, and . . . several houses." Actually, the "rebel camp" was the town of Bedford-which Tarleton carefully burned to the ground, barns, cattle...