Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to comment on a letter written by a Radcliffe girl and published on the second page of the January 11, 1949 edition of the CRIMSON...
When he enlisted in the Navy, Clark Council Hamilton, a fair-skinned, brown-eyed young fellow, listed himself as a white man. Last year, after he got out of the service, he went to Roanoke, Va., married a redheaded, 19-year-old white girl named Florence Hammond, whom he had met while she was selling popcorn at a local movie house. Florence's family were semiliterate Virginia dirt farmers. At first they welcomed Clark. But after a while his mother-in-law began to resent him-she still wanted Florence tied to her apron strings...
...young couple went off to Baltimore, got jobs and settled down. But the bride's mother began badgering the girl over the telephone. Finally she told her daughter a baleful tale: she had dreamed that Hamilton was a Negro and then she had gone to Russellville, Ala., found the boy's mother and verified her suspicions...
Mankiewicz has wisely grouped his three episodes so that the film gets better as it goes along. The first sequence, which is the only one to suffer from glossy traces of the story's slick-magazine origin, catches an ex-farm girl (Jeanne Crain) in a panic of social inferiority to her husband (Jeffrey Lynn) and his friends...
...hero of this gory battle royal (Dane Clark) gets tagged on the jaw, slugged with a blackjack, kicked in the head and punched orie-eyed in a boxing bout. Since most of this mauling is done by thugs who work for the husband of his beautiful, frozen-faced girl (Alexis Smith), poor dear Dane suffers without a whimper. Toward the end, there is some talk of sending him off to a hospital to have his head examined-an idea which might have saved a lot of trouble earlier in the story...