Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring of 1963, John F. Kennedy was already speculating on his next election campaign, more than a year away. In this month's McCall's, his longtime buddy Paul Fay Jr. recalls a conversation with the late President about his Republican opponents: "The man I don't want to run against is George Romney," he told Fay. "That fellow could be tough. No drinking, no smoking. Imagine someone we know going off for 24 or 48 hours to fast and meditate, awaiting a message from the Lord on whether to run or not. Does that sound like...
Stagecoach. John Ford's pacemaking 1939 western pushed horse opera into the thoroughbred class, made a major star of John Wayne, and clinched an Academy Award for the late Thomas Mitchell, who gave a richly liquored-up performance as a thirsty, unshaven quack. In this ill-starred remake, Bing Crosby plays Mitchell's doctor role with more flippant humor, fewer prickly insights. Bing is good, but otherwise the movie suggests once more that Hollywood's twice-told tales seldom honor the past as much as they plunder...
...bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought to sit home some night and catch the real thing on the late show...
...Oldest One. Like its sponsors, Geritol ("Tired blood") and Serutan ("For regularity after 35"), the Amateur Hour is part of broadcasting's Medicare generation. The oldest show on the air, it has been producing the tall corn since 1934, before most Americans now living were born. The late Major Bowes launched it on radio, and his top aide, Ted Mack, brought it to television in 1948. It is still the top-rated show in its time slot (5:30 p.m., E.D.T.), pulling 12,700,000 viewers a week. Last week, in a Methuselan milestone, its "wheel of fortune" went...
Stone Mountain will not produce a new champion, for the sculptor who conceived both it and Mount Rushmore was an American-born Rodin pupil, the late John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum. Back in 1916, he took on the Stone Mountain commission from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at one time considered marching 1,200 stone Confederate soldiers across the cliff. The project went forward by fits and starts. First, World War I interrupted. Lee's head was finally unveiled in 1924 with a dizzying breakfast for 30 served atop the general's shoulder. But costs were...