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After six months at Northwestern University, Beatty was bored, quit college and went to New York, where he found even more boredom working as a sandhog on the new tube of the Lincoln Tunnel. Shifting to show business, he played tinkly-tonk cocktail-hour piano in a bin on 58th Street, saved enough money to take a six months' course at Stella Adler's acting school. Scoring minor successes on television (Studio One, Playhouse 90), he eventually won a screen test with Director Joshua Logan, who asked him to demonstrate his kissing talents, using Actress Jane Fonda...
Died. Jack (Charles John) Holt, 62, oldtime cinemactor (Born to the West), father of Cinema Cowboy Tim Holt; of coronary thrombosis; in West Los Angeles. Born in Virginia, the son of an Episcopal minister and great-great-grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall, Holt had hard experience as sandhog, Alaska pioneer and Oregon ranchhand before his hard face became known to millions of moviegoers...
...Then the drilling stopped; the shaking of the drill might cave in the sandy California soil in the bigger pit. As dawn broke hot and clear over the San Gabriel Mountains, the snorting, clangorous power shovels had dug a pit 57 feet deep. "Whitey" Blickensderfer, 43, an unemployed ex-sandhog, was lowered into the crater with a partner-little, gnomelike O. A. Kelly, an out-of-work carpenter and ex-miner. By midmorning, they had tunneled to the well pipe, cut a small exploratory window in its corroded sides. Peering in with mirrors and flashlights, they saw a flash...
...years, he made millions, cut a wide swath on Broadway. He sank $40,000 in a play, acquired a swank Fifth Avenue apartment, took to horseback riding in Central Park and dealing with such labor racketeers as Joey Fay. In 1937 the murder of a striking sandhog labor leader, whom Sam had supposedly threatened to kill, almost toppled him from his throne. Police held Sam as a material witness, but freed him for lack of evidence...
After they have fought enough laughs to a draw, it turns out that Cinemactor MacMurray is really no sans-culotte but a brilliantly eligible engineer, complete with a degree and an invention that is tried out in a sensational, muck-drenched cave-in scene, in which the sandhog saves the lady photographer...