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...next day. Scores of men came running and crawling through the woods, shot it out with the Preskitts for two hours. One intruder was carried away with a shattered jaw, his chest and abdomen peppered with buckshot. The Preskitts finally gave in, agreed to close down their mine until "an agreement" could be reached. But other independents kept operating. "We're going to stay in operation unless we're shot out," roared one owner...
Sabath countered with a short left to the jaw, then a short right cross with real steam behind it. New York's 200-lb. James Delaney stepped between them and stopped the battle before the bewildered sergeant at arms could parade the mace, the traditional symbol of law & order in the House...
Canadian Pacific (20th Century-Fox) digs up a job worthy of Randolph Scott: building a railroad to link Canada's coasts. Troubleshooter Scott squares his jaw against villainous trappers, savage redskins and the Canadian Rockies (in Cinecolor). With the love of two good women (Jane Wyatt and Newcomer Nancy Olson), he finally gets the trains running, but not until Canadian Pacific has dallied at every whistle stop on an over-traveled, one-track story line...
...pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece of humanity as Hollywood has ever treated at length...
Ravreby, right tackle on the freshman football team this fall, set up Chadwick, no mean boxer himself, with a series of jolting left jabs to the face for his final right to the jaw. Two weeks ago, Ravreby scored a one minute TKO over Leland Schoen of Stoughton to win the freshman heavy-weight title...