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...Gamble (20th Century-Fox) is a picture in which the central character is a truck, the story line is a dirt road, the scriptwriter (Irwin Shaw) runs out of gas, the actors (Stephen Boyd, Juliette Greco, David Wayne) have no spark, the director (Richard Fleisher) falls asleep at the wheel, and the producer (Darryl Zanuck) is going downhill. The spectator can hardly be blamed for speeding to the nearest exit...
Intended as a sort of African Queen on wheels, the film tells how a poor young Irishman (Boyd) and his Corsican bride (Greco), who despite her poverty slinks around in a little something by Maggy Rouff, run a truck full of beer through the West African bush. The plot grinds grimly from one boring breakdown to another-a roadblock, a snapped shaft, a flash flood-until the heroine, after fifty minutes of mishap, says, "Whew! I never thought we'd make it." They didn...
...Central moved to its present ratio of 90% Negro, tension lessened. "You have most of the problem when you have no definite majority," says able Principal James Boyd, who took over in 1959. "When you have a definite majority, it reduces friction." But that only half explains the story. Even in the majority, Central's Negro students were often dispirited youngsters with little academic ambition. Central had to make them want to learn...
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Yankee Clipper, with William (later Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd...
...Brattle Street Forum next Tuesday will discuss genetics--"Formula for Man"--with Paul Mangelsdorf, professor of Botany; William Boyd, professor of Biochemistry at Boston University, Carroll Williams, Chairman of the Biology Department; George Lefevre, Jr., Director of the university Biology Labs; and Charles M. Woolf, associate professor of Zoology at the university of Utah. The informal televised session is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. in the Loeb Experimental Theatre...