Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride (Linda Darnell); a young girl (Anne Baxter) who has secretly worshipped Lawyer Wilde from her pigtail days...
When the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall, former dean of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Detroit, married Isabelle Wilson Morrill, a divorcee, last year, many an Episcopal churchman was shocked into protest (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week Mrs. O'Ferrall went to Reno. "He criticized my hats and the way I dressed in public," she explained. "I've brought all my hats with me to Reno." The Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Ferrall said nothing...
Last week Rines put on his black tie again. Judge Paul G. Kirk had thrown out the awards, dismissed the jury, ordered a new trial on a single count against one of the doctors. Rines, who has spent $30,000 on litigation so far, planned to take the unsettled questions to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Rines had tried to prove that the specialists called in had covered up each other's mistakes. Both sides agreed that Mrs. Rines entered the hospital for treatment of a wrenched back, was put in a cast, died a little more than a month...
...Philadelphia, an alert civic organization investigated some mysterious communications, relaxed when it learned that the initials on the notes belonged to one Katherine K. Kirk...
...tries to muscle in, he discovers, in a sourly amusing scene in which modern business methods are explained to him, that mere brute force is helpless against the intricacies of interlocking corporate structure. Aside from this scene, the movie has little interest except for some good work by Kirk Douglas and Wendell Corey as Burt's enemies, some spasms of fair melodrama and plain brutality. Lizabeth Scott walks through the show-in a manner presumably intended as alluring-as if she were lying asleep on a vertical...