Word: gems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scriptwriter Daniel Taradash rescued, if not quite a gem, then at least a high-grade industrial diamond from this rough original; and Director Fred Zinnemann, whose hand showed its great skill in High Noon, has polished the diamond till it cuts. In the refinement, it is true, something has been lost: the bloody but beautiful amateur standing of it all. There are touches of slick sentimentality that do not seem to come from the book; and many readers of the novel will miss some of the original's honest and barbed-wiry vignettes that had to be shorn away...
...Pocatello, the Idaho State boxing team, with the aid of its Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie, Md., in a Kentucky Derby preview-with Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer absent-Eugene Constantin Jr's Royal Bay Gem charged up from dead last at the halfway mark to win the $34,050 Chesapeake Stakes by two lengths over ten other Derby eligibles ¶ln Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.C Olympian Sim Iness bettered his own N. C. A. A. discus mark by a full 2 ft. New record...
...Constitution, American Export Lines' gem of the ocean, made it the awkward way. On the big liner's first attempt, the tide was wrong, and the Constitution drifted within a hand's breadth of smashing into its pier. Dangling anchors dropped with a screech, and with engines in full astern the big ship backed off. On the second try, after a tense hour and 15 minutes, Captain Bernt Jacobsen finally inched the Connie into its slip...
...Connor, McLaverty. In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part II, covering the first 930 years, will be published next year), Editors Mercier and Greene have made selections that lead like steppingstones through the turbulence of the great times; and almost every step is a literary gem...
...Rhinestone pin adorning the average 'Cliffe girl's Jersey may loog like a gem, but chances are that she bought it inexpensively at the costume jewelery counter of any large department store...