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...Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes as a writer. His account of the trip to Nepal, the organization of the expedition, and the search for a route up the mountain sometimes reads like a boy camper's letter to a chum. It is a tribute to the pure terror of his experiences after victory that his writing then takes on the intensity of his subject...
BILLY made his own "decision for Christ" at 16, as a lanky farm boy in Charlotte, N.C., who played first base for the local semi-pro team and dreamed of the big leagues. One night, during the invitation at a revival, Billy nudged a school chum in the ribs and stage-whispered: "Pal, I'm goin'." Billy went all the way: he began to study for the ministry. He went to the St. Petersburg Bible Institute in Florida, then Illinois' Wheaton College (where he met his wife), then accepted a pastorate in Western Springs...
...plot is less up to date: a hard-hitting attorney (Edmond O'Brien), in the course of investigating a big-city crime syndicate, discovers that his policeman father (Tom Tully) is mixed up with the gangsters. Further complications set in when O'Brien's chum, Reporter William Holden, falls in love with the attorney's girl friend (Alexis...
...sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...
...like him if you've seen him the way we have. If you were a mother or father, Bob's the kind of guy you'd want for a son; if you were a fellow, you'd want him for a chum; and if you were a girl-well, just look...