Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maybe it was my fault. It ain't easy to raise a boy without a mother," sorrowfully explains the beef baron (Anthony Quinn), whose tosspot son (Earl Holliman). a sort of Leo Gorcey in chaps, has raped and murdered, just for pure meanness, the beautiful Indian "squaw missy" wife of the marshal (Kirk Douglas). The job of avenging his squaw's death is made much more complicated by the fact that Widower Douglas, "a poor fool with high-flown ideas," is also the best friend of Widower Quinn...
...LEO A. FRATELLA Paramount, Calif...
...film was "immoral within the intent of our law," which prohibits exhibition of shows that portray "acts of sexual immorality, perversion or lewdness ... as desirable, acceptable or proper patterns of behavior." So the judges watched Lady Chatterley (played by Danielle Darrieux) make a cuckold of Sir Clifford Chatterley (Leo Genn) with Sir Clifford's gamekeeper (Erno Crisa). According to a dozen or so U.S. movie reviewers, they saw a tasteful, well-acted, far from sensational film. Neither the French dialogue nor the English subtitles had recourse to the four-letter words that prompted Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield...
...XXIII issued his first encyclical last week, and it proved to be a fatherly message of warning, hope and encouragement. Ad Petri Cathedram (To the Chair of Peter), the circular letter's opening words by which it will be known, is neither a trail-blazing social document (like Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum in 1891) nor a detailed doctrinal exposition (like Pius XII's Humani Generis in 1950). It is instead notable for the familiarity of its style, the range of its concern and the warmth with which it faces its subject: On Promoting-Under the Impulse...
OCDM rejected a petition by U.S. electrical equipment manufacturers to limit imports of foreign electrical equipment. Of the more than 30,000 pieces of electrical equipment installed in U.S. power installations from 1951 through 1958, said OCDM Director Leo A. Hoegh, only 284 were foreign made-and the problem of repairing them is only "hypothetical...