Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rating-rickety show deserted Manhattan for Hollywood last January. The adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Play-Mright Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, young MacArthur caught the withdrawn dignity and explosive rage of a troubled teen-ager who was befriended and helped by a farm girl (Margaret O'Brien). His acting persevered over a plot that did wonders for the hero's stammer but never overcame its own. Though he won praise for his playing of The Young Stranger in the movies (TIME, Jan. 28, 1957)-which he played first on TV-Jim MacArthur...
...wondered what the paper would think." Replied the editor: "Hell, do what's right." At week's end Defendant Press, an accountant by trade had been cleared of any rape charge, but he was in the Fort Hood stockade, still" facing trial on the first girl's charge thai he had forced her into sex acts. On the same day that it reported plans for Press': trial, the Statesman ran a Page One account of a speech by Editor Green arguing "the right of jurors to be informed about details of a crime before the trial...
...some naval officers, men and nurses on a U.S-held island in the New Hebrides. Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) falls in love Some Enchanted Evening with a middle-aged French planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill around on the beach, shouting that There Is Nothing Like a Dame. But the picture spends most...
...girl waits loyally while the boy tries desperately but unsuccessfully to shake his crude, nearly crazed pursuer. In the book's final burst of violence, the sergeant moves rapidly to an inevitable end. Author Murphy's scenes of Army life abroad are nearly faultless (he served in France in 1953-54), and he sticks to his story with a relentlessness rare in a first novelist. He maintains enormous suspense, never lets his characters get out of character, and makes a genuine tragedy of an unsavory situation...
...earn his keep. Author Durrell taught English, and his giggling teen-age girl pupils promptly became infatuated with Teacher. Asked to submit an essay on her favorite historical character, one girl in the class wrote: "I have no historical character but in the real life there is one I love. He is writer. I dote him and he dotes me . . . My glad is very...