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Married. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 80 dean of Britain's composers (Sinofonia Antartica, Pilgrim's Progress); and Mrs. Ursula Wood, fortyish, widow-writer; both for the second time (his first wife died at 80 in 1951); in London...
...JAMES BRYANT CONANT, 59, president of Harvard University, to be High Commissioner for Germany. Of Plymouth Pilgrim stock, a precocious science student at Roxbury Latin School and later at Harvard, the eminent educator became chairman of his alma mater's chemistry department before assuming its presidency in 1933. In World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served...
...when a challenge to high adventure under God fails to awaken a response in prophetic words and redemptive deeds . . . that church is dead. It is dead even should it be acclaimed as the most venerable institution of which a nation . . . can boast. For a true church must live a pilgrim life upon the road of God's unfolding purpose, keeping close to the rugged boundaries of His ever-expanding kingdom...
...surprising that all the characters in Plymouth Adventure spend a great deal of time impressing people with who they are. Van Johnson, in particular, greets everyone with a hearty handshake and an introduction: "I'm John, John Alden." Neither is it surprising that all the Pilgrims show a superhuman piety and fearlessness, that they are all cultured and very proper, acting more like their descendants than the hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character...
...Provincetown, Mass. MGM, attempting to fill in the historical gap, has drawn on what studio publicists call new, revealing research as well as on Ernest Gebler's imaginative 1950 novel and on some pure invention by Screenwriter Helen Deutsch. The resulting movie pictures the Atlantic crossing of the Pilgrim Fathers as a combination of storms above deck and stormy passions below deck...