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...chiefly responsible for this thriller's good qualities is evidently Delmer Daves, who wrote the script, found and imaginatively used the excellent back-country locations, and directed some remarkably fresh scenes of adolescent love and rebellion. Veterans Robinson and Anderson are rock-solid in their roles until Mr. Robinson is required to go too melodramatically bats. Lon McCallister, 23, whose nascent film career (Stage Door...
...thanked them cheerily, told them that Hitler's war had saved her business. Army men, who got to Dover first, had all the girls, so newspapermen spent their evenings playing ping-pong in the hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly ascended into the twilight above Dover...
Penn's was Elmer & Delmer Brown...
...standing individual performance of the four was that of unheralded Negro Jimmy Smith, who covered his mile in 4:14. At the Penn Relays a total of six meet records was set, of which one, in the Class B mile relay, was set by Elmer & Delmer Brown, with their teammates Johnny Stovall and Alvin Chrisman, a twin whose brother is no runner. Most famed name in the meet was that of James E. ("Ted") Meredith. Sixteen-year-old son and name sake of Pennsylvania's famed pre-War quarter-miler, he helped the Mercersburg Academy team place third...