Word: neale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Face in the Crowd (at the University Theatre through Saturday). Elia Kazan slashes furiously at TV and the Madison Avenue promotion men in this tale of a good-for-nothing jailbird who becomes a potent national force. Andy Griffiths gives a magnificent performance, and Patricia Neal turns in the finest job of her career...
Sharp-eyed Neal Kromer. manager of the Bogert Builders of the rival Knee-High League, had been impressed by the two youngsters' strong throwing arms and their better-than-.400 batting averages. He offered them free taxi rides to and from every game, flashy jackets and future trips to New York if only they would jump from the Jets and sign with the Builders. Flattered as any bonus baby, the kids agreed...
...soso. The film has moved too slowly, and Andy Griffith in his first movie role has been uneven and never quite convincing; but Patricia Neal has provided a sensitive study of what it is like to be in love with a hokum Yokum. And then the villain hits the top. He goes hog-wild, and so does Director Kazan. Instead of keeping the menace down to life size, the script permits its corn-fed psychopath to sphacelate through the U.S. social body like some malignant growth, until he actually threatens to take over the Federal Government. As the driving force...
Foster was unbeaten at 167 during the regular season, but lost to Neal Lesher of Rutgers in the quarterfinals of the Easterns...
Foster, after a first round bye, pinned Fred Schult of Colgate, but suffered his first defeat of the season, losing to Rutgers' captain, Neal Lesher, 10 to 6, in the quarters...