Word: glenn
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Golfer Hogan (Glenn Ford) and his wife Valerie (Anne Baxter) struggle along on shrinking funds from tournament to tournament before he hits a champion's stride. He practices interminably, frets over his game, the antagonism of a sport columnist, his victories over a happy-go-lucky friend (Dennis O'Keefe) resembling the real-life Jimmy Demaret (who, like Golfers Sam Snead and Gary Middlecoff, plays himself in the movie). Then comes the near-fatal crash...
Only in exceptional cases do you find a man who truly stars in more than one sport, and further, leads you to believe he would shine in anything. Jim Thorpe, of course, is Olympian in this respect, but here have been others, too. People like Bob Mathias and Glenn Davis. People like John White...
...Force will test it for possible use as an all-weather night intruder. If it passes, the Glenn L. Martin Co. is expected to manufacture...
Married. Terry Moore, 22, starlet; and Glenn Davis, 26, onetime Army halfback (TIME Cover, Nov. 12, 1945), professional football player (Los Angeles Rams); in Glendale, Calif...
...rocket launchings, Director Donnelly unloads the usual "Navy" plot--brass, sweat, and gush. The stereotyped roles of dogmatic admiral, bright young officer, and old-timer crew chief have been played hundreds of times before with the same mediocrity. Unfortunately, the plot is just as mechanical as the casting: Star Glenn Ford gets a clever idea, the admirals give him the runaround, and then he makes a pass at the base chief's secretary. At length he succeeds in blowing up his own petty officer with a "Loon" while the band plays "For Those in Peril on the Sea." This maneuvering...