Word: homestead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace Front will not be confined to workers. "Homestead Committees" and a "Constituent Assembly of the Land" will try to organize farmers and small landowners. Army, police, magistrates, intellectuals must not be left out. Mauro Scoccimarro, ex-Finance Minister, summed up: "Mere control of ordinary state machinery and bourgeois parliamentary institutions is not enough. There must be something outside Parliament and outside the government capable of controlling and directing both...
Christmas vacation to most Harvard students means sitting around the old homestead regaling the parents with the fall's academic and un-controversial achievements, but to the members of the Varsity basketball squad it means an extended tour through the Mid-west, broken only by the three one-night hoop stands which without doubt comprise the roughest part of the Crimson's current season...
...haired horse that has what appears to be delicate baby-blue eyes veiled with beautiful false eyelashes. After long training by a small, red-haired boy (Ted Donaldson) and interminable praying by a pious terrier, Big Red wins the big race just in time to save the old homestead from the sheriff. Best bit: a gory battle royal between the stallion and a jolly black bear, which delegates all the infighting to a stand-in from the taxidermist...
...about horse-racing, the average spectator will soon tire of matching wits with a plodding script-writer. Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde join and separate as mechanically as two participants in a Virginia reel, with the much-abused backdrop of horse races and a stately Marlyland homestead. But there is nothing positively unpleasant about the picture: blushing technicolor is made the most of, especially in the newsreel shots of the English coronation, and the photography of the races is really very good...
Fisher's toss of 172 feet, 11 3/4 inches broke the Harvard record by two feet, 10 3/4 inches, and manager George Caploe should actually be credited with an assist Friday night at the famous Homestead restaurant, after the trials, Caploe offered to buy the former Varsity center a two inch sirloin steak if he would break the record Saturday. Fisher, with customary indifference, said he couldn't promise anything but that he would "go all out" to set a new record. He got the steak dinner...