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Twenty demonstrators showed up at Willard Straight Hall--the Cornell student union--to picket the presence of CIA recruiter Jim Fitzgerald, who had to leave the scene nearly one hour before the Career Fair was scheduled...
...American image, Hudson, 59, was born in the heartland, in Winnetka, Ill. His mother was a telephone operator, and his father, Roy Scherer, was an automobile mechanic who left the family when his son was a child. When his mother remarried, little Roy assumed his stepfather's surname, Fitzgerald. After that, his boyhood was so normal and wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once seen Jon Hall swim...
...looking. Can you act?" asked Willson. "No," said the young man. "What did you say, feller?" asked the incredulous agent. "I said, no, I can't act." To which Willson replied: "Good. I think I can do something for you. Sit down." Willson transformed Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson and secured him an apprenticeship in one of the biggest film factories, Universal Pictures. Fighter Squadron (1948) was his first film. During the next six years, 25 others followed, like The Iron Man and Air Cadet. The studio was his school. By the time his first big picture, The Magnificent Obsession...
...construction of the park was authorized in 1976 by the Massachusetts State Legislature in a statement specifying that it must be a passive park for public use, "dedicated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
John Antonoli's documentary chronicles the life of a writer who has been compared to other Americans such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Whitman. And it handles the history well. But the actual film footage lags way behind an intriguing story...