Word: holte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beauty of The Kentuckian is not in the raw yarn, but in the loving country touch with which it was homespun. The script, taken from The Gabriel Horn, a novel by Felix Holt, was put together by A. B. Guthrie Jr., who has published, in The Big Sky and The Way West, two excellent books on the winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that...
Sometimes the travelers ran into iron portieres. Representative Joe Holt (R. Calif.) got back to Washington last week announced that a Red army lieutenant in a Moscow suburb had held him up at gunpoint when he attempted to take pictures of a Moscow church "He poked a gun about a foot from my face." Holt said "and it was cocked, and he shouted You're uncultured, you're uncultured.'" Holt couldn't let a chance like that to pick up a few votes go by. "I sure am " he said he replied...
...LONELY SKY (316 pp.)-William Bridgeman and Jacqueline Hazard-Holt...
Honored in the Breach. In Pineville, La., after listening to Mrs. Nona Vance's charge that Handyman Elmer A. Gallipau had failed to paint her house and Gallipau's countercharge that the hair-restorer treatments she gave him in payment had failed to grow hair. Judge Jack Holt called it a draw, assessed both equal shares of the court costs...
...SILENT, RUN DEEP, by Commander Edward L. Beach, U.S.N. (364 pp.; Holt; $3.95). President Eisenhower's naval aide, 36, topflight submariner and author of the best account to date of undersea combat (Submarine!), has now written his first novel. It is a war novel, with a vengeance. Ed Richardson runs into just about every heart-stopping jam that a Medal-of-Honor-winning pigboat skipper can get into and out of in the battle against Japan. While ripping up shipping all around the Western Pacific, he tangles with "Bungo Pete," the cunning old Japanese ex-submariner whose beaten...