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Then comes the usual mixture: one God-fearing pioneer with a bobbing adam's apple, a cross-eyed blond, and a horny cowpoke (amusingly played by Rod Steiger). And, after this, the inevitable lynching party. As reel three goes on, the question is who will save Jubal from the noose. Justice? Or indians? Or both...
...Peru, where he will try to catch a star for the movie version of his novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's quarry: a Pacific black marlin weighing at least 1,500 Ibs. (world-record catch and heftiest fish ever taken by rod and reel...
...scope, and her sardonic, unrelenting smile is very convincing. Michael Rennie, nattily attired in a Bond-tailored-to-measure suit, is the London office's special troubleshooter sent to Ankara to bust open the nasty mess. He and his Hollywood-styled henchmen, who take part in the inevitable last-reel chase, resemble Dragnet posses currently on view on television. Otherwise, settings appear authentic, and the total lightweight result is quite entertaining...
After hearing aroused members of Washington's Parent-Teacher Association reel off a series of gloomy facts and figures about the capital's elementary schoolteacher shortage, Mrs. Arthur Riordan produced some evidence of her own to show the House Appropriations Committee just how low today's teacher standards have fallen. On one first-grade exercise paper she produced, the sevens had been written backwards. On another, three plus six made eight and two plus three made six. On still another, truck had become truk and trains trims. What alarmed Mrs. Riordan was not the mistakes themselves...
...Bill of Rights and immigration documents. Curator of the Poetry Room since 1943 and selection specialist for Widener since 1946, Sweeney controls the purchase of modern English and American writings for the working collection of the University libraries. In the Poetry room, he has assembled a thousand-reel tape collection of recordings by contemporary poets, including rare readings by Wallace Stevens. "Sweeney is the sort of man for whom Stevens would overcome his reluctance to record," one colleague said. "With his charm and intelligence, he is a person Stevens could trust...