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...English country parson, with his kindly stoop, his dear old ladies and his teatime calls, was one of the comforting and comfortable pillars of the Empire. But no longer, according to Britain's sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued minor poet, John Betjeman...
...Climb the Highest Mountain (20th Century-Fox), the sentimental story of a circuit-riding parson in a 1910 Georgia town, is made out of the same cloth as Stars in My Crown (TIME, Jan. 8). A narrator's voice strings together a rambling account of rural joys, sorrows, faith; some of the incidents and characters (e.g., an epidemic, a greedy general-storekeeper) directly parallel the earlier movie, and again they are all designed to warm the heart...
...picture tumbles into almost every pitfall that Stars in My Crown tastefully avoided. It miscasts its parson (juvenile William Lundigan) and his loyal wife (sexy Susan Hayward), sugarcoats the characterization of its village atheist (ably played by Alexander Knox), plugs away so tritely and self-consciously at its tear-jerking and spiritual uplift that it appears insincere. Though shot in Technicolor in the red hills of Georgia, the movie generally seems truer to Hollywood, especially when it gives Actress Hayward such lines as: "I had begun to commit the gravest sin a woman can commit against her husband...
Richards looked up at the crossbar. There it sat: the most beautiful stationary object he had ever seen in his life. After two years of missing by finger-flicks (TIME, Jan. 29), Parson Richards had become the second* man in history to vault 15 feet or more. He got up and did an unrestrained war dance...
...Parson Bob Richards, 24, a philosophy teacher at La Verne College, Calif., had his hands full keeping up with Illinois' Don Laz, 21, in Philadelphia. They wound up in a tie at 14 ft. 9 5/8 in. It was good pole-vaulting, but still not within breath-holding distance of 15 feet. The breath-holding came in Boston. After clearing the bar easily at 14 ft. 9½ in., Richards tried for the elusive 15. He missed the first time. On his second try, with the crowd on seat-edges, he went over beautifully, only to flick...