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Hollywood rings a few changes on the plot. Hard-luck Hilda (Jean Simmons) is only 22 when, "surfeited with the wrong kind of love," she comes home to mother after running through two husbands and an unspecified number of lovers. But things are tough at home too. Mama (Judith Evelyn) gets a faraway look whenever Hilda begins blithering about life. And rascally Jean Pierre Aumont wants to bed her, not wed her. True enough, wealthy Guy Madison has honorable intentions, but Hilda thinks he is something of a cluck. She marries him, anyway, only to have Guy's meanly...
...forgotten. Accompanied only by his proud mother and his brother David (who finished third, behind California's Robertson), he hiked back through bitter cold to his hotel. No one had thought to send a car. Now everyone was worried about honey-haired Tenley Albright, the hard-luck kid from Newton, Mass. Only two weeks before, she had gashed her right ankle in a practice accident...
...Britain, Germany and The Netherlands, higher wages and improved living conditions are now providing a strong inducement for workers to stay at home. In France and Switzerland the governments forbade immigration agents to advertise or hold public meetings to make their pitch. Hard-luck stories from recent emigrants had their effect even in overcrowded Italy, which has sent one-third fewer settlers to Canada this year than last...
...fans keep coming back to Busch Stadium even though they are losing. The Cardinals are the only team in town, and the muggy Midwestern summer is never so dismal that it cannot be brightened by the sight of Stan Musial at the plate or the pleasure of second-guessing hard-luck Manager Eddie Stanky. For a few weeks this spring, the bleacher jockeys even got a kick out of razzing Rookie Wally Moon in the outfield. "Where's Enos?" they would yell. Did that lanky, crew-cut college boy really think he could fill in for Enos ("Country...
...Rittenburg, with a bad foot, leaped 22 feet 11 5/8 inches, only an eighth of an inch off John Harlor of Dartmouth's best jump, to finish second in the broad jump. The hard-luck performer had to settle for a fifth in the hurdles won by MacAllister Booth of Cornell...