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As the mountaineer, gangling James Stewart lopes easily through his role. Wendell Corey stiffly plays Captain H. T. Peoples, former superintendent of Caledonia State Prison Camp, who encouraged Williams to work on the carbine, and whose magazine reminiscences of the event inspired the making of the movie.
Diana Herbert, as Hull's daughter, is easily the most inept member of the cast. She telegraphs all her lines by constantly fidgeting; when she speaks, she throws her arms into impossible gestures. Charles Nolte, of Billy Budd fame, plays Miss Herbert's husband very weakly. Endowed with an unbelievably...
The Kefauver-for-President drive still centers in Tennessee, with clubs springing up on every other hill. Governor Gordon Browning and two of the state's Democratic Congressmen, J. Percy Priest and Albert Gore, are already out for him. Paper replicas of his political trademark, the Tennessee mountaineer'...
It was "Fred Vinson Day" in the valley town of Louisa, Ky. (pop. 2,100), and 5,000 people crowded into town for the doings. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, Tom Clark and Sherman Minton, all the Kentucky court of appeals judges, the governors of Kentucky and nearby West...
"Immense Fun." Somehow the astounding Roosevelt also found the time & energy to attend Harvard ("I am very glad I am not a Yale freshman; the hazing there is pretty bad. The fellows too seem to be a much more scrubby set than ours"), to marry twice and beget six children...