Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Hurd Hatfield in Greed...
...misers here suffer none of the crushing caricature of Moliere's L'Avare, written a century earlier. Gretry's characters romp through their villanies like a couple of school-children. In the end the misers' greed is duly admonished and their young wards are awarded their rightful inheritances and are allowed to marry...
Last week in Manhattan, Judge Francis Valente referred to Minot Frazier Jelke's "greed, wanton self-debasement, venal exploitation and progressive debauchery," and sentenced him to three to six years in Sing Sing for pimping. There was a silver lining: if he behaves himself, pudgy "Mickey" Jelke will get out not long after his 25th birthday in November 1954, when he will inherit his $1,000,000 oleomargarine fortune...
...that I like to have looking at me, as the magazine rests on my book table . . . Usually I put it there, face-side hidden, as I don't like to be stared at promiscuously. But Mrs. Eisenhower's . . . features say, better than words, that innate kindness and greed-free drives can animate people, even today. Glad I am that she is the mate of a man in a high place...
...Naked Spur ambitiously tries to dig into the theme of human greed, but it is neither a Greed nor a Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Nonetheless, Director Anthony (Bend of the River) Mann has richly fleshed out the picture with the red meat of action. Shot in the Colorado wastelands, the plot is unfolded almost entirely with the camera rather than with words. A striking exercise in violence, it is a western with real form, rhythm and authentic style. Best sequence: a three-way shooting match between Ryan, Stewart and Meeker up & down a cliff jutting over a raging, impassable...