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...Paramount). At one point in this oriental melodrama, one of the characters describes Alan Ladd as "Sir Galahad, Horatio at the bridge and Robin Hood, all wrapped up into one." The description is incomplete. Playing a rough & ready adventurer, Ladd lands in the Indian state of Gundahar with a planeload of guns and ammunition at a time when bandit forces are converging on the Maharajah's palace. The Maharajah's adviser (Charles Boyer), a Gandhi-like character, is an adamant believer in the virtues of nonresistance, an attitude which mystifies Ladd...
...last fortnight a planeload of Pentagon brass arrived at Convair's Fort Worth plant, dropped a curtain of security over the flight date, and barred all reporters. Cain, a staffer for the afternoon Star-Telegram, drove his car as close as he could get to the test field, and for days kept watch, until colleagues began calling him "Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break...
Last summer's expedition, financed by the National Geographic Society, carried in a planeload of equipment and set out to find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
Most of the men & women in Novelist Mathew's planeload are in Africa for uninspiring reasons, e.g., failure at home, husbands stationed there. The exception is young Navigator Ivor McKenna, a Catholic, and the spirit that makes him different gives the author his message: "[After confession] he felt a strange lightness and ease, a spring of gratitude, thankfulness to God. . . In a moment he was flooded by a sense of God's mercy. . . At a level beyond personal likings, a deep unity of spirit bound together all those who accepted and were molded by the Catholic Faith...
Grutzner uncovered the story of one "prairie university" which "took a planeload of New England high-school athletes halfway across the country to inspect the plant and 'meet the boys.' " Another college has 140 special athletic scholarships, which pay $55-a-month living expenses to athletes, $75 to married...