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...league's top scorers will be opposing each other in this final game. John Green of Kirkland with 212 points is leading in scoring, and Bill Riggs of Winthrop is third with 165. Other top scorers are Burt Berson of Dunster with 171 pints, John Hurst of Lowell with 164, and Dan Mayers of Leverett with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans to Play Deacons for Title | 2/24/1955 | See Source »

Just as sitting-rooms are sometimes decorated to bring out the quality of a central picture or object d'art, Vera Cruz seems to have been filmed to highlight the brilliance of Burt Lancaster's teeth. At any rate, they are good-looking teeth...

Author: By John A. Porz, | Title: Vera Cruz | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

Vera Cruz (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists), billed as "The Battle of the Giants," is apparently an attempt to decide the heavyweight championship of Hollywood. In one corner stands Burt Lancaster, congenital desperado, and in the other Gary Cooper, Southern gentle man dispossessed by the Civil War. The rough stuff gets under way somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Died. Struthers Burt, 71, Baltimore-born novelist (Along These Streets), lecturer and loving chronicler of Americana; after long illness; in Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

Apache (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists) claims to follow in the bootsteps of High Noon and Shane, but it trips along the way. It stars Burt Lancaster in a fairly closeup view of the Indian brave, Massai, who refused to join Geronimo in a peace contract with the U.S. Army. The old chief and his warriors are shipped off to Florida reservations, but Massai escapes and decides to go it alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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