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...Rather Die Young (Gisele MacKenzie; Capitol). A hillbilly tear-jerker which darkly affirms the futility of life without love. MacKenzie, in her clear, bold voice, makes a good case for her side. A candidate for success with beer-parlor jukeboxes and losing lovers...
...Clown gives TV Comic Skelton an opportunity to perform one of his specialties: drunk and pratfall routines. But the picture is mostly an unblushing jerker of glycerin tears...
...Alumnus Donald Russell is a respected Carolinian, a onetime soda jerker and salesman who won first honors at both the college and the law school, rose to be one of the top lawyers in the state. In 1930 he joined the firm of Nicholls, Wyche and Byrnes, eventually became Byrnes's assistant when Byrnes was Secretary of State. The two men later went into partnership again, separated only after the gubernatorial election...
...tear-jerker,' " continued Doyle, "is a paragraph about 'Marty,' who had difficulties in school, found Latin and algebra 'dull,' quit school . . . 'drifted from one dead-end job to another,' fell in with evil companions, and finally used a gun on a druggist during a holdup. As he awaited sentence, one of his former teachers reflected: 'I was a big help to that boy. I taught him Tennyson and compound verbs...
Little Women. A lushly romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's genteel tear-jerker ; with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Janet Leigh (TIME, March...