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...decision to expand the College was reached last year after a committee headed by Justus Buchler, Johnson Professor of Philosophy, concluded that an increase in the College's size would benefit both the College and the graduate schools. Dean Palfrey in his report emphasized that the expansion was designed to "encourage a more integrated undergraduate and graduate educational process" and to permit "greater flexibility and opportunity for the College to experiment and diversify its offerings...
...spite of its manifest and manifold weaknesses, Mr. Edwin Justus Mayer's muddled and misbegotten pastiche persists in being perversely entertaining. Mr. Mayer has attempted something so vast and fascinating that even in its failure, shadows of success can be seen intermittently dancing: cleverness shadowing forth brilliance, and excitement grandeur...
...JUSTUS LEWY Rio de Janeiro...
King's herds grew until his Running W brand was known on every cattle trail in the West. More important, perhaps, the land he gobbled up was always legally acquired. He had a talent for picking lawyers. The best of that fine crew was one Robert Justus Kleberg, a young attorney who beat the captain in a lawsuit, was promptly hired by King, and later married the boss' daughter...
Director Henry Koster and Scriptwriter Philip Dunne have made a real effort to avoid the pitfalls of Biblical movies by balancing the saintly preaching of Dean Jagger (as Justus) and Michael Rennie (as Peter) with the muscular Christianity of Burton and Mature. There is a minimum of the sex and sadism that usually characterize Hollywood's explorations of Holy Writ. The CinemaScope screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion...