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Rita Hayworth, the fourth bride of Crooner Dick Haymes, was not quite right when she cried that her fourth groom was being "torn apart and crucified." Actually, like a sinewy Thanksgiving turkey, Dick was just being carved many ways. His second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, collected $2,650 for overdue support of their three children, claimed that Dick owed her $29,087 more. Internal revenuers were grabbing half of Dick's salary for unpaid income taxes; his agent continued to get the customary 10% slice; his creditors were cut in for their regular 20%. Dick was reported...
Hannah Lee (Jock Broder Productions) refers to a cowboy ballad used as background music to one more encounter between the wicked cattle barons and the hapless homesteaders. Macdonald Carey plays the hired gunman who slaps small boys, makes roughhouse passes at the beautiful saloonkeeper (Joanne Dru), and shoots harmless people dead. For all the gunplay, the film limps along from anticlimax to anticlimax, but moviegoers may be beguiled by some spectacular Technicolor scenery. As the U.S. marshal who goes to the rescue, John Ireland sets some sort of precedent by losing all his fist fights and getting shot down...
...major conquest that remained for serious European mountain climbers was the sheer west face of the Aiguille du Dru, which rises over the Chamonix Valley to 12,247 ft. above sea level. To blaze this last unclimbed trail in the Alps, four tough young Frenchmen roped themselves together with 70-ft. lengths of nylon and started...
...Adrien Dagory, 29, a Paris candymaker, and Guido Magnone, 30, a cardboard-box manufacturer, who was a member of the first team to scale "unconquerable" Mount Fitz Roy (alt. 10,958 ft.) in Patagonia, the climbers approached the Dru with a healthy respect. In earlier assaults on it, they had been beaten by a rockslide and a five-day snowstorm. This time hunger and thirst stopped them about 650 ft. from the summit after they had scaled an obstinate dièdre, a rock ledge jutting out like the edge of doom. Forced to return to their base camp...
Racing up again against threatening weather and a lately arrived team of Italians, the climbers took a longer but safer route, up the Dru's north face and over to the point where they had left off earlier. Nearing the needle-like summit, the second man loosened a great boulder that plummeted so close to Dagory that it ripped off his knapsack and scattered a cascade of bright Jordan almonds down the mountainside. But by late afternoon the four men were perched atop the Dru, waiting for aerial photographers to record their triumph. Europe's last unconquered passage...