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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture...
While Taft and Eisenhower dueled on the front pages for headlines and votes, the third man bustled quietly around the country. Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, coonskin cap a-perk on his head, pretty wife smiling at his side, was convincing thousands at the fork of the crick that he was THE Democratic candidate for the presidency. In the five weeks since carrying the New Hampshire primary, he had proved himself a truly magnificent handshaker, fried chicken eater, baby admirer, Kiwanis hypnotizer and a past master of the big platitude...
...after all, he was a singer and the Met was "my life." He penned a chastened apology to General Manager Rudolf Bing, who had sacked him last spring (TIME, April 16) for dashing off before season's end to make a movie called Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick: "I ... appreciate that you had no other alternative . . . Should you be willing to consider my reinstatement . . . your trust in me will not be misplaced." Last week Bing announced his answer: "To admit one's mistakes the way you have done is a sign of moral courage and decency. I shall...
...Hollywood hubbub over television's steadily rising power (see RADIO & TV), everyone conceded that the ones who were sure to get it in the neck were the nation's theater owners. But by last week the theatermen could report that they don't even feel a crick. Latest figures showed 23,397 movie houses (3,508 of them drive-ins) now operating...
...schoolmaster of the County Primary School in Offord, Huntingdonshire, England, wanted to do something for the Festival of Britain and asked his pupils for suggestions. One of them had an ambitious idea: "Why not write a book?" Schoolmaster James W. Crick put it up to 13 of his senior students; they thought it was a splendid notion. By last week, Offord had a history of itself it could be proud...