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...fact, the defense was all that Harvard had on the field for most of the beginning of the game. Sophomore halfback Will Stargel--who scored twice in the varsity game against Lafayette--fumbled on the first play from scrimmage. Northeastern recovered and Husky halfback Charlie Burgess scored from the 5 yardline...
Crazy Quilt. Henry (Tom Rosqui) is a realist. "He knows," says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...
...Free Country, disguised as a thriller, is a fable that might have been concocted by an unusually simple-minded fellow traveler. The villain of the piece is the British security system, which is apparently feeble enough to let a Burgess and Maclean, a Philby or Vassall, go undetected for years, but is eager to winkle out a man of the people of leftist leanings who just happens to handle sensitive hardware. He is a noble, rugged, beer-drinking type who had fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted...
...Damon died of pneumonia, and TWA's fortunes plunged into five more years of turbulence. By now, Hughes had virtually vanished from sight, dealing with TWA's officers by phone, often in the dead of night, or through lawyers, or sometimes not at all. Carter Burgess, an Assistant Secretary of Defense whom Hughes picked as president a year after Damon's death, never saw his boss. Once, Hughes summoned him cross-country to a Las Vegas conference but left him all night in a hotel room waiting for a phone call. Burgess quit after eleven months...
Though Little Lady ultimately cheats a little, the rustle of skirts in the midst of a down-and-dirty poker session provokes comic agony. Among the bystanders swept a'ong to the payoff, Paul Ford as the town banker and Burgess Meredith as a high-living frontier doctor help to point up the very evident pleasures of gambling, hard liquor and fast company...