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...Gruff, slow-talking Harry Vickers charges that Wall Streeters have been knocking Sperry stock in hopes of buying it on the cheap. Wall Streeters, who think about as highly of Vickers as he does of them, reply that the stock has been hurt by the recent executive departures and divestitures. Last week Sperry stock closed at 14¾ -off more than 30% since...
Short on excitement, Trumpet shows a streak of rather whimsical originality in a sequence that has Chief War Eagle speaking Apache lingo while English subtitles flash on the screen. A less significant breakthrough is James Gregory's mock heroic performance as a gruff old Indian fighter who charges into battle spouting quotations from Latin. Since completion of the film, Troy and Suzanne have become Mr. and Mrs. in private life, gamely rallying from disaster for a Hollywood finish of their very own: omnia vincit amor...
...Denver last week, the Upper Colorado River Commission met with Dominy to demand that he put the plug back in Lake Powell. Chief spokesman was gruff old (80) Edwin Carl Johnson, Colorado's longtime Senator (1937-55) and Governor (1933-37; 1955-57), now a member of the commission. Johnson accused Udall of "perfidy" and "stupidity," quizzed Dominy for more than an hour, charged that the release of Glen Canyon's water was a breach of contract with the Upper Basin states and a waste of water as well, predicted that "given several dry years, the Upper Basin...
...heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally speaking, a much less effective cast. Lynn Milgrim, the Juno of this Juno, for instance, could not be better: business-like in her work, gruff in her joy, searing in her grief. Patricia Fay is an honest, spirited Mary Boyle, at once demure and uncompromising. Sheila Forde who appears briefly as the bereaved Mrs. Tancred, impresses one with the genuineness of her lament...
Though the action covers less than a day in the life of Dr. Matthew Carter, this new novel is practically a shooting script for a new TV series. All the elements of Casey and Kildare are abundantly present: 1) gruff-seeming doctors beset by demanding patients, 2) flippant nurses, 3) crisp dialogue given a spurious weight by repetition ("Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure?" "Yes, we're sure"), and 4) big, dramatic scenes in the operating room with the surgeon rapping out such commands as "Toothed forceps and a knife with a number eleven blade...