Word: grit
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Karen "True Grit" Linsley was ecstatic with the draw. She explained that the team was "really psyched" for Yale and had practiced for two weeks in preparation for the contest...
Messing, who gained notice at Harvard for keeping a boa constrictor in his room and eating a wine glass to demonstrate his "true grit," said the venture was "strictly a business deal. I figured the publicity and money would be good...
...anybody has, he tells why they left. But All God's Dangers is most valuable for its picture of pure courage. Knowing he was ridiculed and despised, aware that whites would frustrate his plans, Shaw simply went ahead, surrounded by a shell of pride. He wonders where this grit came from, recognizes that his nature welled up from something deeper than race or family. He describes his own "dear brother" as "hush-mouthed. He made up his mind that he weren't goin' to have anything, and after that, why, nothin' could hurt...
...sequel to True Grit was recently finished on location in Oregon's rough high desert with two overage Hollywood monuments as its stars-Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne. Though they have been around the movie business for nearly half a century, the stars had never acted together before joining the cast of Rooster Cogburn. TIME Correspondent Leo Janos was on hand to watch Duke and Kate. His report...
...Rooster Cogburn. Kate's acceptance of the hardships of making a brawling western seemed to reinvigorate Duke. Playing the same hard-drinking, one-eyed marshal who won him an Academy Award in True Grit, Wayne predictably chases an outlaw gang through the steep trails and canyons of the high desert. Joining in the good old pursuit is Kate as Spinster Eula Goodnight, out to avenge her murdered clergyman father. If the plot does not sound stirringly original, it at least gave the two aging stars a good workout...