Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does any ex-Dunsterman ever miss an occasion to draw unfavorable analogies between the apocryphal "then" and the ubiquitous "now"? In the Harvard of today a questionably humorous saga of good old K-Entry is almost as familiar and certainly not less annoying than the Massachusetts Avenue trolley line or the bolls of St. Paul...
...everlasting Hardy family, One Man's Family (the Barbours) is an imaginary upper-middle-class family full of common traits, to which all kinds of uncommon things happen. Morse says he got the idea for One Man's Family from reading Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. Family is as prettied-up a picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than 20 radio awards...
...Southwest, famed for its tough badmen, a tough good man died last week. Elfego Baca was little known outside New Mexico, yet he left a saga rivaling Billy...
Anchors Aweigh (M.G.M.), a shore-leave saga with music, dancing, and Technicolor's full palette, is easily the pleasantest couple of hours that can be bought currently in a movie theater. Its standard-bearers : Gene Kelly, a sailor fairly enough described as the Sea Wolf; his sidekick Frank Sinatra, a shy type but eager to learn; Kathryn Grayson, a movie extra who wants to become a famous singer; and José Iturbi, who is surprised but very nice about it when Miss Grayson, being kidded by the sailors, turns up for an audition...
...Dodds saga began when, as a boy in Falls City, Nebraska, Gil Dodds threw a rock at a passing car. The occupant emerged and gave wrathful chase; Dodds gave him a good race, but finally succumbed. The driver turned out to be Lloyd Hahn, then a famous miler, and he was so surprised at being so nearly outrun that he forgot the damage to his car and gave Dodds his first real instruction in running...