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...Chicago Sun-Times's Ray Brennan, 44, is a fast-thinking, fast-moving reporter who modestly puts down his long list of beats to "good luck." Once, while working in Chicago for the Associated Press, he made a routine long-distance checking call to Crown Point, Ind., got the county prosecutor on the wire just in time to get a big exclusive: Gangster John Dillinger had crashed out of the Crown Point jail. Last week another and bigger beat landed Reporter Brennan in trouble. In Washington, a grand jury indicted him for impersonating a government employee. (Maximum penalty: three...
...Wilderness (20th Century-Fox) is a title presumably meant to describe Jean Peters, a shapely swamp girl who runs around Georgia's Okefenokee mudflats dressed in tight-fitting buckskin shirt and trousers and armed with a bow & arrow. Jean lives in the swamp with her father (Walter Brennan), who has been hiding out from the law for eight years because he once killed a man in self-defense. One day a handsome youth (Jeffrey Hunter) ventures into the Okefenokee to search for his missing dog, and stumbles on Jean. What is this strange, perplexing passion that smites the child...
Lure of the Wilderness has some colorful shots of the Okefenokee scenery and the swamp's crocodiles, snakes, owls, bears and boars. Among the human actors, the one who seems most at home in the swamp is Walter Brennan, in a repeat of his role in the 1941 Swamp Water, of which Lure of the Wilderness is a rather soggy remake...
Biggest hazard was Lodge's feud with his former ally, National Committeeman William H. Brennan. Their dispute was over local issues, but Ike's friends feared Brennan might join the Taft minority, split the delegation. Lodge succeeded in displacing Brennan as national committeeman with former Governor James C. Shannon. Lodge then withdrew his opposition to William A. Purtell, a Hartford businessman, who was nominated for U.S. Senator. In an atmosphere of uneasy harmony, brought .about by these moves, the Ike slate of delegates was elected...
Dudley's basketball team also beat Lowell, winning 48 to 33, to take over the lead in the House 'A' Basketball League. The Commuters are one half game ahead of Lowell. High scorers of the game were Bill Brennan for Dudley and Paul Altrocchi for Lowell...