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...clock scholar in English and mathematics. Lacking his needed credits in those subjects, Fabian will not graduate with his old classmates next week. South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the "pressure" of a movie that the toneless lad was making...
With the exception of one redundant brother (Jack, a "bold lad 10 years old"), Disney retains the whole famdamily (John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran) and most of the menagerie too-one of his press releases proudly points out that the film contains "some 150 myriad animals.'' But except for the shipwreck and the tree house and one or two minor incidents, he abandons the book's plot and substitutes more photogenic, made-in-Hollywood situations...
...opera proved that the cultural commissars Lad a supersensitive nose for bourgeois decay and no ear for music. They had completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems...
Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every march." Said Winston at his father's death in 1895: "The dunce of the family will take revenge on the whole pack of curs and traitors...
...some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their domain. In the end, he got the trinket on a month's loan by promising a donation to a village shrine, guaranteeing an education for a local lad and agreeing that a village elder could accompany the scalp to Chicago, where it will be examined by scientists...