Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe Rufus Youngblood, who was guarding then Vice President Johnson at the time of the assassination, is the same man with whom I served in World War II. I would like these additional facts to be known if he is the same...
...14th or 15th birthday, he, was flying combat missions over Europe. At 18, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. Rufus Youngblood was already willing to lay down his life for his country even before...
...several scenes of throat-filling pathos. Helping her along is the family -here presented as a gallery of bloodless tintypes except for Aline MacMahon, repeating her stage portrayal of Aunt Hannah, and Pat Hingle as Jay's bumptious undertaker brother, whose hands reek of formaldehyde. Finally, Mamma tells Rufus that his father isn't really gone, after all, because, well . . . feel the baby...
...summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child." Thus the tone is set for a love poem embracing five generations of Follets, seen circa 1915 through the lens-sharp perceptions of Jay's son Rufus. There are moments when the film seems about to capture this elusive poetic mood: Jay and Rufus at the picture show laughing at Charlie Chaplin, then moseying home after dark; a visit to Rufus' great-great-grandmother, edentate, gibbering, gaunt, propped up in her wheelchair like a gnarled old angel...
Died. Gordon Rufus Clapp, 57, chairman from 1946 to 1954 of the Tennessee Valley Authority and from 1955 president of the Development and Resources Corp., a consulting firm engaged in the Khuzistan project, Iran's version of the TVA; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...