Word: mccalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last fall, a weak Dartmouth squad succumbed here only after Marsh McCall clicked on one of the few halfback goals Munro can remember. It may take a similar intervention by whoever watches over soccer teams for the varsity to win today. You can't ever tell about Dartmouth games...
...take the cake that she herself never baked. But last week it turned out that Gypsy wasn't just cooking with gas-she was making, of all things, clothes. Reporting a survey indicating that 37 million U.S. women make an average of 20 garments a year per family. McCall's Patterns noted that one of its foremost pattern purchasers is Gypsy, turned do-it-yourself seamstress, possibly as penance for all those years of professional disdain. . . . In Vogue as the ninth in the magazine's series of "fashion personalities": pool-eyed Princess Radziwill, 27, third wife...
...baby food has started an infant epidemic. Will Lord quit under fire, as he has done before, and slink off to accept a college presidency? In providing the unimportant answer to this unimportant question, Novelist Hawley shows that he has refined his prose technique since Executive Suite and Cash McCall; the tedium of his narrative's implacable forward progress is now unrelieved by any fresh thought or phrase, or even by a friendly old cliché. The business world is a valid and fascinating locale for fiction, and Lincoln Lord spouting ghostwritten eloquence is a recognizable type...
...Cash McCall (Warner), the screen version of Cameron (Executive Suite) Hawley's 1955 bestseller, sets a new low in Hollywood's long history of idollartry. The movie's moral: money is the root of all virtue...
Naturally, young Cash McCall has to pay through the nose for this shocking lack of faith in the almighty dollar, but in the end he proves loyal to his principal and stands up boldly to the villain (Roland Winters). "Accept my generous offer," the hero announces in words that are apparently intended to represent the all-American spirit of rough-and-tumble competition, "or go home and cut your throat." The hero of course makes the merger and gets the girl (Natalie Wood), with whom he lives wealthily ever after...