Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Robert Walker, 29, perennial movie juvenile (See Here, Private Hargrove, The Clock); and Barbara Ford, 24, studio film cutter and daughter of Director John Ford (The Informer, Fort Apache); in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Companions in Distress. What, through all this, was happening to the opposition? As early as Monday, Candidate Robert Taft had phoned Jim Duff-who was trying to hold the fort for Arthur Vandenberg-and invited him to a conference. They met at the Drake Hotel, in the penthouse apartment of John D. M. Hamilton, who was national chairman of the G.O.P. when Alf Landon was its candidate...
...Spaghetti Is Cooked." TIME Correspondent Mary Barber watched part of the battle from a brigade command post in Fort Nestorion, overlooking Hill 1291, the day's objective in that sector. Cabled Barber: "Down below, Nestorion's main square was packed with ambulances, trucks and jeeps. In the horse trough near the spring, peasant women were washing out used field dressings and the stained water flowed over the cobblestones. In the church, the village priest was reading the burial service over eight soldiers who had died in the morning's fighting on Hill...
...Furnace Creek (20th Century-Fox) is a better-than-average western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...
...most of the outdoor shots and in the final chase, there is none. Thus unencumbered, Director Bruce Humberstone has created intense excitement out of beating hooves, panting horses, long, treacherous silences, heart-stopping squeaks of leather and the sinister scuffling of men stalking each other through the ruined fort...