Word: davises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Doak Walker won the Heisman Trophy, awarded the "player-of-the year," following in the footprints of Johnny Lujack (1947), Glenn Davis (1946) and Doc Blanchard (1945). Said soft-spoken Doak, who does not seem as impressed with himself as everybody else is: "I sure appreciate it."
June Bride. Bette Davis plays it for laughs, with Robert Montgomery (TIME, Nov. 15).
In spite of a routine comic framework, Robert Montgomery and Bette Davis have a moderately intelligent script in "June Bride," and that's all they need. Montgomery is an accomplished wisecracker, and on occasion he can make even a standard line something to be remembered. Bette Davis, of course, is...
The plot is of little substance. The principals carry on their highly-conversational love affair as employees of a House Beautiful-type magazine. They go to Indiana to write a feature story on an average American "June wedding," and get mixed up in the romantic affairs of two young couples...
Bette Davis is Montgomery's straight man for the most part, and has to waste a lot of time unraveling the plot (which, although flimsy, is rather intricate). But she is a good straight man, and does a creditable job of sustaining "June Bride" in its dull spots. Although there...