Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tender-tough little story about a gang of kids who grew up, much too fast, in the dirty but lively Santa Croce quarter of Florence. Unlike most of the half-forgotten U.S. proletarian novelists of two decades ago, Pratolini knows how proletarians live, and he writes about them with a tender gravity that is unflecked by condescension or political twisting...
...cobwebs and, to the cheers of the connoisseurs, issued a transcript of Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. The best news for swing fans since that occasion is Columbia's new album: Jazz Concert No. 2-a transcription of 37 tunes performed by Goodman and his gang on radio programs in 1937-38. The gang is all there-Gene Krupa on the drums, Harry James on the trumpet, Teddy Wilson at the piano, and Goodman, of course, on the clarinet. Fully warmed up and stimulated by cheering jitterbugs, they play with a brashness rarely caught on records...
...past congresses of the Russian Communist Party check off the stages by which an underground gang of amateur conspirators became a world-powerful gang of ruthless professionals...
Springfield, as Crimson Coach Lloyd Jordan noted, "brought down a rugged gang of kids." Ossie Solem's well-coached squad featured a fine ball handler in quarterback Hal Haines, some good running backs, and a tenacious defense...
Much better is the by-play between Weldy and the gang. Its leader is perhaps the most sympathetic character, played by Jack Kerr who is a frequent Brattle Theatre performer. More than any of the others, Kerr is able to transmit the fights between maturity and boyishness which are typical of adolescents. Stewart seems too much like a morose Henry Aldrich. And in the same way, his mother, Irene Hervey, never become a real individual; she is always the doting and misguided parent. Beyerly Lawrence, however, does quite well in the confusing part of the mother's friend...