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Little Gretchen Koehler gives a driving, foot-stomping performance of Paddy on the Handcar and takes second place in the junior division. Her teacher, Craig Eastman, wins the open division flat out. Enoch Cameron plays Blackberry Quadrille and wins fifth place in the senior division, for musicians over 60. His son Bill takes third in the juniors. Neither Dave Carr nor Joe Lecouffe wins a thing except a day in the fresh air, and neither gives a hoot...
...international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland over a rickety bridge scarcely able to sustain the weight of a handcar. Lancaster persists in this curious decision despite information that spontaneous remission is occurring in all those infected...
...parents, teachers and peers, but who eventually wed in a ceremony conducted by the boy's best friend (Jack Wild). The denouement finds all the school kids backing the prepubescent romance and holding their teachers off while the happy couple pump away into the sunset on a railroad handcar. There are some good secondary scenes of teasing and classroom high jinks, and excellent photography by Peter Suschitzky, who tries to give spice to an otherwise far too sugary project...
...reports that he was waylaid on a narrow jungle trail by a pair of desperadoes; he dropped them both with his pistol, while a slug tore through his campaign hat. When the Marines were occupying Vera Cruz in 1913, MacArthur went on an unauthorized reconnaissance aboard a railway handcar. Shooting his way out of a series of ambushes, he arrived back in Vera Cruz with four bullet holes in his shirt, but unscathed. As a brigadier general...
These days, the students simply haul the new rector about the cobbled streets in a handcar, subjecting him to indignities on the way. But last week they relented for ailing Rector Snow, and he responded with an address that might have been aimed at Critic Leavis had not Snow announced its theme months ago. The title: "On Magnanimity." His main theme was that the more advanced nations of the world should show greater understanding and generosity toward the poor countries. But he turned a sharp point toward individual magnanimity, deplored "a very ugly streak of malice" in Britain, and quoted...