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...Brace Munro's squad, with its so-so, two win-two loss record, will be at very nearly full strength for the encounter. Only Stacy Holmes, inside right, will be unable to see action. Dick Fisher, starter at that position today, played such a good game against Wesleyan, scoring the only goal, that he can scarcely be considered a substitute...
...TRAITOR AND THE SPY (431 pp.) -James Thomas Flexner-Harcourt, Brace...
...Billy Rose returns to producing with a brace of French plays: the musical, Orpheus in the Underworld, based on Jacques Offenbach's score and with a new book by Ben Hecht (see Music) ; and a dramatization of André Gide's The Immoralist, starring Geraldine Page and directed by Herman Shumlin. Other French entries: The Strong Are Lonely, with Victor Francen and Margaret Webster; and a Louis Kronenberger adaptation of Jean Anouilh's bitter Colombe, a starring vehicle for talented Julie Harris...
...Ricardo Montalban, who plays a bare-chested rancher with a coyly devilish grandfather (Louis Calhern). Since the plot offers no clear reason why the movie should run 104 Technicolored minutes, Scenarist Isobel Lennart has thrown in such extraneous items as a funnyman from the U.S. Embassy (Archer MacDonald), a brace of psychoanalysts (fast replacing mothers-in-law as Hollywood's stock figure of fun), and assorted Latin American production numbers. Lana's final solution to her money problems has a disarming simplicity: she gives it all to Fiancé Montalban on the theory that...
...spindly child who wore an awkward, hip-high brace for six years to correct a curvature of the spine. But he was precocious and inquisitive, and when he arrived at the Browning School in New York at the age of nine, he was two years ahead of his class. At Harvard, where he was a shy and awkward youth, he concentrated on fine arts, was a second-string tennist and president of the literary Signet Club. He graduated with honors...