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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Sellers...
...wrenching break from the past has its disasters. The longest and best story, Goodbye, Columbus, is about Jews who have made the ascent from grubby Newark to the green pastures of suburban Short Hills, NJ. Mr. Patimkin is a rich manufacturer of kitchen sinks, "tall, strong, ungrammatical, and a ferocious eater." Son Ronald was an all-state basketball player in high school and a Big Ten star at Ohio State. Daughter Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs...
Room at the Top (British). The career and comeuppance of a young Englishman on the make, based on John Braine's bestselling novel. One of Britain's best pictures in years...
...victory Friday over a weak Holy Cross team, the Crimson nine put on perhaps their best performance of the year. Pitcher Wally Cook, less effective earlier in the spring, held the Crusaders to only four hits, while the Crimson amassed twelve off straight-baller Eugene Malinowski...
...acting throughout Rebel is of the highest caliber, and Dean receives a great deal of support from Jim Backus as the pathetic father trying to fulfill his son's image of him. The family scene following the chickie run is a great example of high-pitched acting at its best...