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Baum, Leonard of 2 Amherst Street, Brooklyn; Abraham Lincoln High School. Schwartz, Herman of 1492 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Technical High School. Soule, William Lamson of 2794 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Technical High School. Freimer, Marshall Leonard of 392 East 4th Street, Brooklyn; Erasmus Hall High School...
Died. Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, 62, Canadian-born pulp fic-tioneer; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Able to keep five manuscripts boiling at the same time, Bedford-Jones ground out 100 novels, countless short stories, estimated that by writing fast, instead of well, he had earned...
...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...