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From his rough & tumble boyhood surroundings in Baltimore's Little Italy, hard by the waterfront, Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. fought his way toward the political big time. He never lost an election, became mayor of Baltimore, and was ready for greater things...
...Century-Fox). In this movie version of Harold Foster's comic strip, Producer Robert L. Jacks and Director Henry Hathaway have not only matched the museum-copied look of the well-known Sunday viking and his cohorts; they have caught the panel's inner mood of stilted boyhood reverie as well. The outer semblance was attained partly by chance-the CinemaScope screen coincides roughly with the dimensions Foster favors for his cautiously grand panoramas...
Peter Domanig is an Austrian immigrant lad who comes to the U.S. at 17, just after World War I. (Author White has already covered his boyhood in a 1944 novel, Morning in Vienna.) Peter bypasses the glitter of New York in the '20s and an easy suburban life with an American foster father, and heads for smoky, industrial Pittsburgh to make his own way. From there on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up. conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop...
...done as well as any. From kings, commissars, soldiers and common people in 87 lands he has been flooded with medals and honors and gifts of great price. Together they make an impressive spectacle of 2,200 items, worth $1,500,000. This week, in Ike's boyhood home, Abilene, Kans., the Eisenhower Museum, housing Ike's war trophies and other Eisenhower memorabilia, will be informally opened to the public. The President will preside over the formal opening next autumn...
...museum, a modern, windowless structure of tan Onaga limestone, white polished stone and glass, stands on a three-acre plot of land adjoining the President's boyhood home, where, more than 50 years ago, Ike and his brothers grew vegetables and feed crops. It was built by a group of Kansas businessmen and voluntary contributors, will ultimately cost...