Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in one God . . ." Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure...
...little boy clutching the cross was Dean Acheson, who came to believe in a number of things: in having a good time, in the importance of Scroll & Key at Yale, in Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. But at the moment he believed chiefly in God and in Father. Father was the rector of the Holy Trinity Church...
Life on a fashionable Middletown street was happy and uncomplicated. About the only rule was that a boy mustn't hang on to the back of ice wagons. "So we hung on to the back of ice wagons," says the Secretary of State, who enjoys recalling the "golden age of childhood." But Acheson could not help but bear some of the stamp of Father. No one who ever came in contact with the Rev. Edward Campion Acheson, later Bishop of Connecticut, came away without his imprint...
...solve his own problems, "Mine Own Executioner" bonsts a murder, a suicide on a tenth-floor ledge, a hair-raising ladder climb, a schizophrenic, a plane going down in flames, a sinister Luger, Japanese torturers, truth serums, a to-the-rescue courtroom exoneration, and a little boy whose gap-toothed, trusting grin sets everything right in a fogless London...
...seems that Lionel Barrymore, an old whaling captain, can't take his grandson, Dean Stockwell, back to sea unless the latter passes his fourth grade examinations. Master Stockwell fails them, but a sympathetic principal fixes up the mark, thus permitting the boy to ship over. This takes care of a quarter of the film. At sea, there is a struggle between the old captain and the young first mate over the education of the boy, plus a few adventures with whales and icebergs, which are covered so quickly and superficially that one wonders why the directors bothered to fill their...