Word: glendon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They Came to Cordura (William Goetz; Columbia), based on the 1958 bestseller by Glendon Swarthout, is a big, flashy, $4,000,000 Gary Cooper western. Its primary purpose is to grab the top dollar in the November movie market, but incidentally it tries to "put [its] hand," as the script proclaims, "on the bare heart of heroism." Director Robert Rossen, who wrote the script with Ivan Moffat, never gets quite that close to the mystery of courage. But he does examine the nature and conduct of a hero at considerable depth, and he finds in his moral conflicts a stronger...
THEY CAME TO CORDURA (213 pp.) -Glendon Swarthout-Random House...
Died. Richard A. ("Old Dick") Glendon, 86, oldtime rowing coach whose crews at Navy and Columbia paced eastern racing for 27 years (1904-1931); in Hyannis, Mass. A fisherman by trade, Dick Glendon taught himself to scull on Boston's Charles River, developed the famed "Glendon stroke" (a long layback...