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...bricks. Whether by the grace of God or the works of Henry Samson, Wee Geordie (Bill Travers) turned out to be the biggest and the brawest laddie from Ecclefechan to Papa Westray. He was a nice, gentle giant-or, depending on the point of view, a big dumb ox. He thought of nothing but his muscles, and as far as bonny Jean (Norah Gorsen) could tell, he would rather grab a bar bell than a girl...
From U.S. Steel's sprawling Fairless plant in the East to Pittsburgh's glowing furnaces in the West, Pennsylvania is bursting with prosperity. In Election Year 1956, the voter can savor ground breast of ox at his political picnics. Yet. in the midst of such plenty, a once mighty Pennsylvania institution and a once unbeatable Pennsylvania leader have fallen upon breadcrust-hard times. The institution: Pennsylvania's regular Republican Party organization (still known as the Grundy machine after its longtime boss, stiff-necked Uncle Joe Grundy, now 93 and removed from politics). The leader: Republican Senator James...
Such criticism did not ruffle Happy. "Isn't that a sad thing?" he beamed. "It all depends on whose ox is gored. We simply had the longest horns, and we did the most goring. Politics, you know, gets a little rough, and if you can't stand the gaff, you better get out of the game...
...family is torn by an anguish it can only express in hysteria and anger. The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate, anticlerical O'Flaherty suggests, is little different from that of the dumb ox. In eleven pages the reader gets a minor masterpiece of human misery...
20TH CENTURY-FOX movies will appear on TV. For $2,000,000 plus a percentage of all income over $75,000 per picture, Fox will lease 52 films, many first-rank (Les Miserables, Ox-Bow Incident, How Green Was My Valley), to National Telefilm Associates for showing in U.S. and Canada...