Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jail sentence to track down some low characters who are smuggling rifles and firewater to the Indians. When three of these gimlet-eyed fellows trap her in a bath house (where she keeps her guns slung to her garters), she plugs them and larrups away with a hunt-and-peck dentist, Dr. Painless Peter Potter (Hope). She marries Painless for the sake of appearances, then gets rather fond of him. Whenever he gets in a jam, Calamity stands patiently behind him and plugs his enemies. In time, this leads to a scene that Hope plays with all the zest...
Other features of interest include a newsreel resume of the world series and another sporty movie entitled Sports Golden Age, playing at the South Station. The Old South is featuring an epic entitled Dreams That Money Can Buy, which Seymour Peck of the New York Star has described as "surrealist, Freudian, and disturbing...
Family Hour of Stars (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS), starring Gregory Peck...
...Prudential's Family Hour abandons the music field, promises 30 minutes of drama with Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck...
...Patrick's in time to cover Babe Ruth's funeral, walked over to the Waldorf-Astoria men's bar for a reminiscent lunch with Mourners Leo Durocher and Mel Ott. Back at the office, he wrote the funeral story (see above), took 35 minutes to peck out a syndicated column that goes to 600 newspapers, and wrestled his first edition to press. That night, in his apartment, he worked on a book he is writing, while Mirror messengers came & went with late pictures for his approval...