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Jack Benny Show (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS). Guests: Ben Hogan, Bob Crosby...
Follow the Sun (20th Century-Fox) follows the career of Golfer Ben Hogan from his beginnings as a caddy to his stirring comeback in 1950's Los Angeles Open, a year after he was almost crushed to death in an auto wreck (TIME, Feb. 14, 1949). Hollywood's first major film about golf - and the first in a new cycle of sport movies* - sticks reasonably close to the facts, and the facts add up to one of sport's most inspiring stories...
...Golfer Hogan (Glenn Ford) and his wife Valerie (Anne Baxter) struggle along on shrinking funds from tournament to tournament before he hits a champion's stride. He practices interminably, frets over his game, the antagonism of a sport columnist, his victories over a happy-go-lucky friend (Dennis O'Keefe) resembling the real-life Jimmy Demaret (who, like Golfers Sam Snead and Gary Middlecoff, plays himself in the movie). Then comes the near-fatal crash...
Though the real Hogan comeback is made to order for drama, the picture must work overtime to warm up the famed Hogan reserve. It does so partly by accenting the devoted loyalty of the golfer and his wife, partly in the casting of likable Actor Ford, who, with Hogan's coaching, also gives a good imitation of the master's golfing technique. But Follow the Sun humanizes its hero mostly by picturing him as an introvert who always wanted, deep down, to be liked by the crowd, despite the emotionless surface he displays as a grim perfectionist...
Ward had given away nothing but Frank Dyson's leadoff single until the seventh, when Hogan's hard grounder went through White and, with two away, catcher George Vomacka tripled to left over Bennie Akillian's head. White and Walsh caused excitement by singling in the ninth, but White was thrown out at third by the Crusader catcher to kill the threat. HARVARD ab r h po a e Foynes, cf 3 0 1 1 0 1 Robinson, rf 4 0 0 2 0 0 White, ss 4 0 2 0 2 1 Akillian...