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...Produced in Hollywood by Hall (Navajo) Bartlett on a shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch plays himself on the screen. Since he looks like a dark-haired Kirk Douglas and meets every cinema crisis with the wooden impassivity of Alan Ladd, Hirsch easily passes most of Hollywood's requirements for a leading...
...mean "of or pertaining to the elders." Thus any old people's home, of whatever religion, becomes by definition a presbyterian (though not, Mr. Wolfe, a Presbyterian) establishment; and the Elders of Zion have, by the same token, as good a right to the adjective as the Kirk of Scotland. Similarly, after rooting for the origins of the word church (from Greek kyriake, kyriakon, the Lord's house, from kyriakos, concerning a master or lord, from kyrios, master), we might forgivably maintain that the British House of Lords is as churchy an institution as St. Peter...
President Pusey was guest of honor at Columbia's sixth annual Homecoming celebration last Saturday, where amid festive surroundings of bunting and banners, he joined with Columbia President Grayson Kirk and over 2,500 Homecoming alumni in group singing...
After sharing a box lunch, the two presidents exchanged short speeches. Kirk was delighted that ". . . in the midst of all his new activities (President Pusey) could come to the game today." After mildly hoping that Columbia might be victorious, he yielded the platform...
...find it extremely attractive, because it pays for itself and then becomes an annuity for my children. How else can you save money these days?" John Wayne, one of Hollywood's top box-office draws, "is very much for TV," has plans to produce his own TV films. Kirk Douglas has made a pilot film for a Biblical series-"a sort of Bible-with-guts show...