Word: budd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph...
RUSSIAN PIG-IRON shipment of 2,500 tons is being purchased by U.S. firms for 20% under the domestic price. Budd Co. is testing 600 tons, which it has bought for castings...
...heels, this week made his debut in television-a world in which he would have felt as much at home as he did in Hollywood. Literary case histories of ruthless ambition have greatly multiplied since Sammy first came running 20 years ago, but he still outpaces them all. Novelist Budd Schulberg himself trimmed his book down to a two-part, two-hour television show, and to judge from the first installment (the second is due Sunday, NBC, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), TV cannot dim the rage of Sammy's mean-spirited race from Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...sounds like the soft-hearted friend to man he was meant to be. Barbara Rush is Schulberg's "Vassar smarty-pants" scriptwriter down to the last inflection; Dina Merrill plays the conniving heiress with icy charm. The measure of the production's power is its faithfulness to Budd Schulberg's "blueprint of a way of life that was paying dividends in America in the first half of the 20th century...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Part II of Budd Schulberg's deft dissection of a Hollywood heel on the make. Color...