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Based on a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., Millard Kaufman's screen play relates the tribulations of a young Indiana school teacher. In the years just preceding the Civil War he deserts his college sweetheart to marry a designing Southern heiress. After war breaks out, she goes insane, crosses the lines with their young son, and ends up in a madhouse. Whereupon our hero hits upon the questionable scheme of enlisting in the Union Army so he can go south to find her. Of course he does, and after some further unlikely accidents it all ends happily enough...
...perpetual state of adoration. When anyone picked him up he would jingle faintly as if things were rattling around inside him. Since Golden Boy was made in China in a period when temple priests liked to fill their statuary with symbols, Director Richard E. Fuller and Associate Director Millard Rogers of the Seattle Art Museum grew more and more curious about what was inside. When X rays confirmed that there was more to Golden Boy than met the eye, Dr. Fuller's curiosity became unbearable. He decided to operate...
...through the folk songs of half a dozen countries, e.g., work songs from the U.S. and Caribbean, an old English love song, an Israeli march, a partisan song from France. Sometimes he sang with the orchestra and a twelve-man chorus, sometimes to the accompaniment only of Millard Thomas' guitar. Always he displayed a bone-deep sense of showmanship. At one moment he would have his audience roaring with him, as in Matilda ("Everyone sing the chorus, including intellectuals"); at another he would mesmerize them as he slid with eyes closed into one of his meticulously articulated versions...
Haled before a special congressional committee chaired by Maryland's veteran Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, Senator McCarthy replied with thousands of words of obfuscation and counterattack, identified not a single Communist Party member in the Government. The Tydings committee called his charges "a fraud and a hoax." The Truman Administration was part of the history of "20 years of treason," McCarthy insisted-as he kept on making headlines...
Then Joe turned publicity to political profit. He took off after Millard Tydings, helped smear Tydings into defeat in what a Senate investigating committee later called a "despicable back-street type of campaign." Among Government employees and officials-even among his own Senate colleagues-the McCarthy legend grew, and with it the fear that opposition to McCarthy's crusade would turn him upon them as he had turned on Tydings, for in Joe's book, a McCarthy critic was either a Communist or a fool...