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...steady stars. As wagon master, Bond, with his 215-lb. weatherbeaten hulk, is more consistently convincing than he ever was during his movie career. As trail scout, handsome Robert Horton, who never did amount to much on Hollywood's sets, is in his element at last. But the lean-muscled American virtues that Bond and Horton personify never seemed so attractive as they did in last week's Sakae Ito Story, when they were played off against the sensitive acting of that oldtime film villain, Sessue (Bridge on the River Kwai) Hayakawa...
Backus hurtled off to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, emerged in Depression-ridden 1933 when there were only six plays on Broadway. He ate one daily meal at an actors' soup kitchen, posed for sinister pictures in True Story Magazine. After several lean years, he got steady work in radio soap operas. He soon played in three shows a day at $30 apiece, often did 25 a week...
...Democratic Party faces a choice between the "old boys" of the party and a dynamic liberal group. "Most of the Democrats who won elections in November were not very inspiring," he said, adding that the "old boys" are the loyal party workers who sustained the Democrats through the lean years. These men, Freidel claimed, "see Congress as a system of loyalties," and he asked whether this was the "sort of man you want to see as President...
...hack. "The Casey Jones song has haunted my whole life since the beginning of the century," she once said. Memphis railroaders were known to fight with strangers who sang the slanderous lines. For a while, the ballad was banned in Jackson, Tenn., where Janie Jones lived out the long, lean years. With the help of a ghost writer, she tried to clear herself in a new version of the song: "My Casey, Husband Casey, who meant the world...
Coach Henry Lamar concedes that the '62 freshman team is every bit as good as the present sophomores were last year. In fact, he gives the current team's backfield a slight edge in speed. The Yalies pride themselves in their "fast, lean Bullpups," but the freshmen match them pound for pound...