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...Babe Ruth Story (Allied Artists] is a gawking tribute to a man who deserves better. From the time the grownup Bambino (William Bendix) leaves the shelter of Brother Matthias' (Charles Bickford) industrial school and enters professional baseball, he shambles along such an interminable frieze of sobbing boys, dying dogs and disabled children (to a final, horribly protracted sickbed scene in a hospital) that the real events of Ruth's life are almost entirely crowded out. Sportwriter Sam Levene and Ruth's screen wife Claire Trevor do their level best to make up for this hokum; but even...
...weeks since its publication, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has risen nearly to the top of the bestseller list. (The publishing trade calls it "the least-read bestseller.") Its popularity shows that many a U.S. grownup is just as curious about sex as adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three...
...words were written specially for her, to an old blues tune,* but otherwise the musicians make no concessions to her age. Toni doesn't need any. Her breathy voice is grownup, her phrasing fresh, and her rhythm as good as if she had been singing since the birth of the blues...
...could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center of his own creation. Young Rivera kept a dead snake and a bullfrog in his pockets, carried an eagle-headed umbrella and held hands with a grownup skeleton lady, dressed to kill. Just before he signed the mural, the aging artist's finishing touch was to broaden the boy's grin...
...eagerly as the uncle drank whiskey. The uncle's tales of the uncharted, paradisiacal island "High Barbaree" especially fascinated the boy; High Barbaree became his byword for all he ever hoped to do and be. While he dreamed, the little girl next door moved away. When she returned grownup (June Allyson), the boy was no doctor; he was shaping out a too-smooth career as an aviation executive, and was engaged to the boss's daughter...