Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scandal Sheet (Columbia] takes a faded leaf out of such newspaper melodramas as Five Star Final (1931) and Gentlemen of the Press (1929). Reporter John Derek never takes off his hat, scoops not only the opposition but also the cops; ruthless Editor Broderick Crawford prints anything to get a rise out of his circulation. Together they turn a staid Manhattan daily (U.S. election headline: MR. DEWEY DEFEATED) into a rag that thrives on blood, cheesecake and tears...
Then Editor Crawford bumps off his wife.* Despite all he can do to cover his trail without arousing suspicion, it is Newshawk Derek's brilliant hunches and painstaking detective work that finally expose Crawford on his own gaudy front page-and push newsstand sales higher than ever...
...Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
...movie's Texans, even the villains, keep their word of honor, respect womanhood and fight at the drop of a line of dialogue. When Gable and Crawford clash at the barricades before the Texas senate, mass slaughter breaks out. Then, at a word from the revered Houston (Moroni Olsen), the two leaders settle the issue in a fist fight, the ground suddenly clears of casualties, and both sides go off to fight the Mexicans...
...nominees for overseers, five of whom will be elected for six-year terms, are Monte M. Lemann '03, Walter S. Franklin '04, Ralph Lowell '12, Frederick C. Crawford '13, Rustin McIntosh '14, Roland L. Redmond '15, Henry B. Cabot K. Meyer Kestnbaum '18, Lawrence Taylor '22, Charles E. Bohlen '27, and C. Douglas Dillon...