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...Hurrah for Them! Other movie folk also thought they detected a familiar ring in The Brave One. Director Fred Zinnemann recalled that the late documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North) had told him in 1931 of a similar story he wanted to shoot. Flaherty later sold the idea to Orson Welles, who produced an unfinished version of the story for RKO called My Friend Bonito. In her Vermont home, Mrs. Frances Flaherty has no thought of suing anyone. "I wouldn't think about protesting that award," she says, "but I'm highly amused by the whole...
Because of its location in the temple of the Brahmins, WGBH is top-heavy with free talent. Recent shows included lectures by Pastor Martin Niemöller, Novelist Edwin (The Last Hurrah) O'Connor, Author-Ethnologist Oliver La Farge and Ambassador James B. Conant. British Labor Boss Hugh Gaitskell's three Harvard lectures on foreign policy were carried in full. Drama Critic Walter Kerr discussed contemporary theater with Playwright Arthur Miller. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. completed a 16-part series on the Constitution and human rights only a week before his death (TIME...
...lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov has already collected three volumes of scribbled comment (ranging from "Lecher!" to "Hurrah for Glazunov!"). Trend to date: two-to-one in favor of Glazunov...
...Virginians are proud of Harry Flood Byrd. If the recent legislation [against desegregation 1 is his way of setting Virginia and other Southern states back, hurrah! Save your Confederate money, boys, the South's gonna rise again...
...LAST HURRAH, by Edwin O'Connor. A lusty, irreverent and affectionate fictional portrait of a shrewd gasbag who became a powerful political boss. The story stays on target so steadily that Boston's ex-Mayor Jim Curley still thinks he was having his picture taken...