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...dignified when vilified, and above all to reveal no bitterness when questioned by newsmen.) During the noon hour a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked: "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh, I'd love to." And another Negro pupil recalled: "The white kids broke the ice. They talked to us." Clearly, many of the white children of Central High School were proving themselves better citizens than their elders...
Such a bagatelle of a plot demands-and gets from Dame Sybil and Sir Laurence-high acting to fetch high comedy. From Marilyn it gets a spasmodic effort to conquer the awesome heights. Her most persuasive line is just plain "Gosh!"-but it is never clear whether she is overwhelmed by the dictates of the script or the awesome dramatic company she is keeping. Parading and posing with an even more voluptuous silhouette than most 1911 showgirls had, Marilyn is alternately spirited and lethargic. Especially in her tussling with Olivier, she seems more directed by him than acting with...
Standing on Little Round Top, a hill that anchored the southern end of the Union line, Ike and Monty agreed that Pickett's famous charge across nearly a mile of open fields exposed to Union guns had been illadvised. "Gosh, look at that, just look at that," said the President, as he studied a map. "Why you'd go across that, I don't know. I just don't know." Said Monty crisply: "Monstrous thing. It was an absolutely monstrous thing." Said Ike of Robert E. Lee, who ordered the charge: "You can't imagine...
...Soft! What Truck ... In Madison, Wis., arrested for leaving the scene of an accident after his truck tore off a 3½-ton marquee and smashed an eight-foot window at the Cardinal Hotel, Henry D. Eskridge alibied: "Honest to gosh, I didn't know I hit anything...
...Gosh, I wish I'd missed it by one vote," said Tennessee's Bowden Wyatt when he was told that the American Football Coaches Association had named him Coach of the Year. Sugar Bowl-bound for a New Year's Day game with Baylor, the Volunteers are balanced on the peak of an unbeaten season, and Wyatt is too busy keeping them there to enjoy the honor. "This puts extra pressure on you," said...