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...Delta. Pfc. Argus climbed a lot, but nothing really big until he tried McKinley with three friends, all former fellow students: Elton Thayer, the leader, a McKinley Park ranger and experienced mountaineer; Morton Wood; pilot and homesteader, who had assaulted the peak before, but failed; Pfc. Leslie Viereck of Ladd Air Force Base...
...With nearly all the annual film prizes, except the Academy Awards, presented or accounted for, Photoplay magazine slipped under the wire with its 1953 Gold Medal selections. Top winners: Alan Ladd and Marilyn Monroe...
...record. Woody Simpson, former captain and first-string guard for powerful U.C.L.A., will lead the scrum. Also contending for a position among the Crimson's eight forwards are ex-football captain Johnny Nichols, now at the Business School, varsity football guard Bill Frate, Art Tickner, Ted Kennedy, Jim Ladd, Terry Turner, Brady Williamson, Bob Allen, and Jorge Hardoy...
Paratrooper (Columbia) gains some freshness as a war picture by having Alan Ladd go through his deadpan heroics as a member of the British army. Ex-U.S. Captain Ladd pretends to be a Canadian and volunteers as a private in the paratroops. He soon learns that, no matter what uniform they wear, noncoms are noncoms, and spends a fortnight in the stockade for slugging his corporal in a barroom brawl. But the picture soon demonstrates that it intends to be different: one of the tough top kicks, showing his squad how easy it is to bail...
Paratrooper Ladd obdurately refuses a commission (his reason: as a U.S. officer he once ordered a friend to jump and the friend died), but his reluctance to be a leader is finally overcome in battle when the paratroopers, successfully dodging the Nazis in the desert, blunder into a minefield. Newcomer Susan Stephen makes an appealing foil for Ladd: she is peppery enough in the early reels, and sufficiently soft in time for the clinch. The Technicolor is generally excellent. Leo Genn, as a spit & polish British major, has an amusing scene; encountering the informal crew of a U.S. bomber...