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When Esther Clark first walked into the state welfare office at Tulsa back in 1942, there was no doubt that she was in real need of help. Her husband, John Clark, a junkyard laborer, was earning next to nothing, and they had six children to support. To tide the family over, the state began giving $90 a month to Esther Clark for the support of their three youngest children...
Director Joseph Mankiewicz has condensed the action to a series of intense, violent impression. Some are almost surrcalistic, such as a scene in a Beaver Canal junkyard, where white hoodlums test their weapons before a battle. Personalities and personal situations are only suggested; characters become casts of mass emotions...
...screenplay leaves nothing behind in its tour through the junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into...
...buffs, known as "hop-ups," strip the bodies from junkyard cars, replace them with low-slung, homemade roadster bodies. On the engine they install a high-compression cylinder head, a dual manifold and a special camshaft. After months of work and $800 to $1,200 spent for parts, they have a racer that will turn up 140 h.p., capable of speeds over 100 miles per hour. They have been clocked at better than 140 m.p.h. at the Southern California Timing Association's Muroc Dry Lake track, a center of U.S. "hot-rod" racing...
Born 60 years ago in Westphalia, Albers was nicknamed "Dante" in his youth because he had a profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students...