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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyndon.") But most of Stevenson's rank-and-file support is likely to stick with him right down to convention time. And many a veteran delegate pledged to another candidate will feel that urge to merge with Stevenson again at the convention if the going gets close...
...Gary Cooper western. Its primary purpose is to grab the top dollar in the November movie market, but incidentally it tries to "put [its] hand," as the script proclaims, "on the bare heart of heroism." Director Robert Rossen, who wrote the script with Ivan Moffat, never gets quite that close to the mystery of courage. But he does examine the nature and conduct of a hero at considerable depth, and he finds in his moral conflicts a stronger motivation for the usual violent action, which in this film is intensified and refined into a genuine parable of the journey...
Whether Robinson's parade of big names can come near to sustaining a Bergman level of virtuosity for a full season is a question of performance. Two weeks ago Robinson came close to failure with The Jazz Singer, starring Jerry Lewis. But Producer Robinson has a reputation for imagination and drive, carved as program boss of CBS, a job he held for a dozen years, until last summer. It was Robinson who patiently brought along young producers and writers, prodded them to "think offbeat," helped develop such CBS shows as Playhouse go, See It Now, Twentieth Century...
...initial-named the Casbah, has been called "a resort for academic hipsters, a dreamy pad for a bunch of non-celibate monks." Its stunning redwood-and-glass buildings, sprawled elegantly on a green hill above Palo Alto, make it look like a motel for Rolls-Royce owners. It comes close to being a boondoggle-and one of the world's most exciting havens for deep thinkers...
Throughout the game. a character looking like an aging water boy strode up and down before the Syracuse bench. He wore a dark blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But when he spoke, they spun to listen, and for good reason. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 8 in., 160 lbs.) Coach Floyd Burdette ("Ben") Schwartzwalder, 50, is the one man who has changed Syracuse from a perpetual Eastern patsy into a powerhouse that leads the nation in offense (36.4 points...