Word: nevill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Artists) is a Hollywood vision of the end of the world. It is trumpeted as "the biggest story . . . The single most important film of our time." Last week it had a "Global Premiere," i.e., a simultaneous opening in 17 cities from Melbourne to Moscow. Alas, the version of the Nevil Shute chiller (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957) that Stanley (The Defiant Ones) Kramer has produced and directed turns out to be a sentimental sort of radiation romance, in which the customers are considerately spared any scenes of realistic horror, and are asked instead to accept the movie notion of what...
...RAINBOW AND THE ROSE (310 pp.)- Nevil Shute- Morrow...
There are two kinds of authors - those who write better than they plot and those who plot better than they write. With his 22nd novel, Veteran Nevil Shute again proves himself one of the best practitioners of Group 2. Shute's surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often...
Sophomore Scheu has performed impressively in the gap left by Lehigh's 1957 Little All-American quarterback Dan Nolan, completing ten of the 17 passes he has thrown. But a fair portion of his success must be credited to a brace of veteran ends--Joe Wenzel and Dave Nevil--who may well beleaguer the Crimson backfield all afternoon. Wenzell especially has the reputation of being one of the most deceptive and skillful receivers in the East...
...Crimson offense will be laboring under the disadvantage of some key Probable Starting Lineups LEHIGH HARVARD Wenzel LE Keohane Meincke LT Shaunessy Schaeffer LG Keating DeFlavis C Foster Stanley RG Anderson Beattie RT Briggs Nevil RE Hershon Scheu QB Ravenel Kovach LH Bouiris Burger RH Repsher Lauretti FB Halaby...