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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Botany Bay (Paramount) takes the slow boat (94 minutes) to Australia. The ship's log of the trip to the first white settlement in Australia (established in 1788) graphically records a couple of cat-lashings, three deaths, a stabbing, a few larcenous interludes, and even a twin-bill keelhauling. All the same, there are too many becalmed stretches when hardly anything happens. Based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the script is a sort of reefed-in version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Instead of Clark Gable there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even...
...Prexy Dunster was walking through the Yard to his palatial residence (a log hut with Dutch brick trimmings), he met a student coming from the reading room with three books under...
...Painter Chapin got fed up with Greenwich Village and outgrew his own imitations of Cezanne. He found a $4-a-month log cabin in northern New Jersey, holed in there for five decisive years. Chapin emerged from the hills with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small...
...Western Touch. From Berthoud Pass, the Cadillac rolled down the western slope of the Rockies into a long, grassy valley (alt.: 8,561 ft.), at one end of which lies the town of Fraser (pop. 350). Fraser, whose dusty streets and log buildings look like sets for a horse opera, was a little subdued. There had been a fatal shooting in Bud's Bar a few days before, and most everyone was getting ready to go to the funeral...
...conclusion that a little creative manual labor is just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring Fork Valley, 30 miles northwest of Aspen...