Word: newsbeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's words. The front page was replated, pushing aside news of the war in Europe. At four in the morning on a quiet Sunday last week Hedda Hopper's story was on the street. A characteristic California story, it ranked as the Pacific Coast's newsbeat of the year...
When Stanley leaves, his newsbeat has been turned into a crusade, a war not on ignorant bushmen but on learned incredulity. M.G.M.'s wisdom in lending Actor Tracy for his part appears when he delivers, to the jeering Royal Society of Geographers, a four-minute speech that is not only one of the longest but perhaps the most eloquent in cinema history, sounds as if it might be worth a trophy case of Academy Oscars. Excellent shots: Stanley foiling a host of murderous native warriors with a brush fire; Dr. Livingstone gaily leading his jungle Sunday school...