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Directed by FRANKLIN J. SCHAFFNER...
...story. At times this is all to the good: Petitclerc shears away reams of embarrassingly arch, blustery episodes and mannered barroom colloquies. Too often, though, what he salvages tends toward the simplistic and the soapy. This tendency is hardly helped by the hopelessly stilted direction of Franklin J. Schaffner (who directed Scott to somewhat better effect in Patton). Here is a movie about freedom, art, love and death, and there is not a breath of poetry in it. Indeed, it is most prosaic when it tries to be poetic, as when Hudson muses that the sea "has great beauty...
...case in many white households. Admitted Beti Gunter, the wife of a lawyer in Little Rock, Ark.: "Something inside me tried to say that slavery wasn't that bad, but now I know that it really was a lot worse." Said Barbara Ash, a vice president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Chicago: "I just hurt for them. Guilt is not a good word to describe my feelings?I felt agony." Said Lydia Levin, a law student at the University of California at Los Angeles: "I don't think I ever sat down and thought about what slavery really meant. Whites...
Determined as the Point is not to pamper its women cadets, some special measures are being taken. Uniforms designed by Hart Schaffner & Marx will be essentially the same as those worn by men but cut somewhat differently, with a modified, narrower hat and an optional accompanying skirt (except for parade dress, when men and women alike must wear trousers and the regulation tall "tarbucket" hat). Hair must be cut short. Makeup? Yes, but in "good taste." Jewelry? A wristwatch and one ring. No earrings, no bobby pins, no hair ribbons. The women will room together in pairs-but in barracks...
...home town of Phoenix with all the trimmings, including limousines and klieg lights raking the sky. By 20, he was in college just outside Los Angeles and had bluffed his way onto the Universal lot, where he hung around movie sets "until I got thrown off. Hitchcock, Franklin Schaffner, I was bounced by the best Universal had to offer...