Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bung-nosed A. P. ("Peck") Herbert, 60, novelist, wit, and Independent M.P. for Oxford, took to the pages of London's Sunday Graphic to give a vigorous pat on the back to Britain's Chief Representative to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, with a sideswipe at one of Sir Gladwyn's chief adversaries, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob Malik...
Screen Guild Players (Thurs. 8 p.m., ABC). Gregory Peck in Twelve O'Clock High...
...tennis fans, the Cochell outburst was no surprise. His bad manners on the court and his rows with umpires and linesmen have earned him a reputation as a Peck's Bad Boy of the courts. Nonetheless, his stinging serve, precise volleying and inelegant but powerful ground strokes have at one time or another beaten most of the topnotchers in current U.S. tennis. Alrick Man Jr., non-playing captain of the Davis Cup team, is well aware of Cochell's ability. So is the committee. But, said Man last week: "We felt Earl's behavior would not make...
...plot closes in inexorably, always pointing up the tantalizing question of just how & when Peck will die. By concentrating the action largely in one place and within a few hours, Director Henry King gets considerable tension while generally avoiding the risk that things may get somewhat static for a movie...
...film also offers some tangy humor, able performances (notably by Actors Peck and Mitchell) and a sense of period and locale, right down to Peck's droopy mustache. But, like its outlaw hero, it comes to a bad end. Its plausible air lasts until the final scenes; then the hero goes out of character and the picture goes off on a little sentimental jag to treat him like...