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Coach Norm Shepard believes his team has been steadily improving, and has a good chance of stopped Howard Hobson's precise performers...
...grade school, he casually doctors his examination grades to pass with flying colors. Later, as a solicitor's clerk, he blithely adds his name to an invitation list to the fanciest ball of the year, where he boldly dances with the hostess, the Countess of Chell (Valerie Hobson). In time, he inveigles the countess into becoming patroness of a highly profitable thrift club he has set up. Through such bamboozling, Denry becomes wealthy, marries a beautiful young girl (Petula Clark) and gets to be the youngest mayor in Bursley's history. All in all, the yarn...
...subdued, well-rounded characterization but also gives him an opportunity to indulge in a full measure of comedy falls-from hurtling headlong into a canal atop a careering van to racing around in an old cart behind a runaway mule. Glynis Johns as a dancing teacher and Valerie Hobson as the countess stroll attractively through their roles. One of the Bursley townsfolk remarks of Denry: "He's a rare 'un . . . But what's he done? Has he ever done a day's work in his life? What great cause is he identified with?" Replies a Denry...
...board of three rear admirals last week fixed the blame for the mid-Atlantic collision between the aircraft carrier Wasp and the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson last April (TIME, May 5). The convicted culprit was not there to hear the verdict: Commanding Officer William J. Tierney went down with his ship...
...riddle of the Hobson remains unsolved. "As the commanding officer was not among the survivors," said the board, "his reasons for turning left will never be known...