Word: heflin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Van Heflin, 43, blond cinema he-man (Shane), and Frances Neal Heflin, 32: their third child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tracy Neal. Weight...
...fair rating of aptitudes for their work. It is with chagrin that I confess a growing conviction that Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...
...recent decades the South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. was being blocked by one man, the Bilbo of the North: North Dakota's Senator William Langer. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support...
Shane (Paramount). A horse opera put in finest fettle by Director George Stevens; with Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur (TIME, April...
...good racket of my own ... I don't have the time and I don't trust the medium yet . . . You watch that stuff some time . . . Instead of being five foot eleven, you're four foot three. I'll wait until they get straightened out." Van Heflin feels that a series of weekly TV shows, for a movie actor, "can very easily mean the complete destruction of his career in motion pictures. The audience gets used to getting something for nothing, and then does not want to turn around and pay for it." Teresa Wright, after giving...