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...Vermont Life. He still sticks to regional history, but his regions are selected from all over the U.S. Well on his way toward making the past as readable as the present, he tries to keep an even balance between things (Conestoga wagons, railroads, the American eagle), places and people (Garfield's assassin, Lincoln as a horse tamer), and events (Tippecanoe, the Bear Flag revolt). Newton, who is also a director of Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with the help of only one paid hand. He wangles free...
...felt few vibrations from life on the great outside-one of the few was the assassination of President Garfield. The flag was lowered to half-staff over the town's main store and people talked in hushes as Garfield lay dying. "It was thus," writes Herbert Hoover, "that I learned that some great man was at the helm of our country...
...peace talks, the Gallup poll reported. But it still found only 29% of the people approving him. ¶ Succeeded in his first effort to end a strike through the Wage Stabilization Board. Nine hundred members of the United Steel Workers ( C.I.O.) voted to go back to work at the Garfield, Utah plant of the American Smelting and Refining Co., after the President said defense production was threatened...
...class characterizations, are all well-keyed to a note of squalid realism. The script gives the hoodlum some depth as well as menace; he is stupid, confused, worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
Individual scenes are uncommonly taut, e.g., a drawn-out crisis in the dining room when Garfield insists that the family eat the turkey dinner he has bought, and Ford, driven to a rebellious gesture, seems ready to die before he will let them accept. But what trips He Ran All the Way well before it has run its length is a far-fetched romantic gimmick. It asks the moviegoer to believe that the girl, devoted to her parents and young brother (Bobby Hyatt), is lonely, frustrated and moonstruck enough to plan on running off with the criminal whom...