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...Mathias Story (Allied Artists), in purely cinematic terms, is nothing more than a wagonload of newsreel clips hitched to a star. But that hardly matters, since track-and-field Wizard Bob Mathias (TIME, July 21, 1952) is a dazzling star to watch. He plays himself in this modest picture, which straightforwardly takes him from his high-school days in Tulare, Calif, to the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where, at 17, he surprised the world by winning the decathlon; then on to Stanford, where he played some first-class football; and finally to the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, where...
...warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus marchers who descended on Washington...
...case-and the headlines. Thorne had made one will leaving everything to his mother. But a second will, made nine days before his death, bequeathed most of the money to pretty Maureen Ragen and her mother, Mrs. Aleen Ragen. Day after day, Coroner McCarron called before the television newsreel cameras the weeping women who loved Thorne-and now seek his inheritance-to cast suspicion on each other...
...picture tells simply-with the help of yellowed snapshots, newsreel footage and the narrative voice of Katharine Cornell-the well-known story of how at the age of 19 months Helen lost sight and hearing from a childhood illness. At the age of seven she "began to live" when Anne Mansfield Sullivan, a trained teacher of the deaf and blind, came to work with...
...Meanwhile, this TV commentator produced a devastating indictment of the Senator in a show largely made up of newsreel clips of McCarthy in action...