Word: cabin
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Deep in the Heart. When Sam Rayburn made the decision that molded his life he was a barefoot boy chopping cotton on his father's 40-acre farm, near Bonham, Tex. As befits a U.S. politician, Sam was born in a log cabin, the eighth of eleven children. His father had fought in the Civil War, settled in Tennessee, moved to Texas when Sam was five...
Associate Justice William Orville Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court came down out of the Wallowa Mountains to Portland, Ore. He confessed that, during nearly three vacation months in his cabin, whose radio is busted, he had read "about six newspapers," had no idea what was going...
Probably the best presentation of the Summer Theater this season, "The Emperor Jones" nevertheless contains a number of flaws which remain to be smoothed out. Rex Ingram was definitely good, a though his laugh resurrects disconcerting images of Lucle Lucifer, Jr. of "The Cabin in the Sky," William Mendrek, although acceptable in a mediocre sort of way, has done much better with cockney accents in past presentations...
...usage. Since then the priest has appeared in or been technical adviser to more than 200 films. He performed his first movie wedding ceremony in Making the Grade. His last movie wedding was a year ago in They All Kissed the Bride. Once he was only a voice: in Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis tuned in on the radio, heard Dodd preach a sermon. Dodd's favorite picture was It Happened One Night, in which he appeared but did not utter a word. In the film Claudette Colbert bolted a big lawn wedding just as Actor Dodd...
...excitement. From the little that has been bruited about, the West-coasters are condemning the Navy as a system for reducing the population of the state of California and the East-coasters are dreading assignment to dry-dock. But new pins will be stuck in the map in the cabin of the good ship Briggs by the time this paper goes to press. The beans (and the tears) will be spilled after the third disbursers vs. suppliers softball game scheduled for June 2. The winning team, and according to previous scores it should be the disbursers, will hear billets read...