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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield mates include a pair of speedsters who are doing a good job of making Earl Blaik forget about Glenn Davis. They are "Bobbie Jack" Stuart, a 175-pound seatback from Tulsa, Okla., and Win Scott, who holds the West Point broadjump record of 24 feet, 3 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barclay Says Army's Pass Offense Good | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

...twin-engined Beechcraft rolling down the runway at Churchill under a lowering, leaden sky carried four assigned passengers and one hitchhiker. Captain Benjamin Scott Custer, onetime director of air safety in the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, now attache in Ottawa, was returning from a cruise with Canada's aircraft carrier Magnificent (TIME, Sept. 13). Captain Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, the Royal Navy's observer, was Custer's guest. There were two U.S. Navy pilots. And there was Master Sergeant Jerome Scalise, 50, going home to Virginia for retirement. After 30 years in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Unscheduled Flight | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Ruthless (Eagle Lion) is a temperate description of a financier named Horace Vendig (Zachary Scott). As the picture opens, he is tossing a huge fortune into the lap of a world peace organization; but his old acquaintance Vic (Louis Hayward) knows a thing or two about him, and the movie breaks out into a rash of flashbacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Coroner Creek (Columbia). For a reason which he carefully keeps to himself, Randolph Scott, the hero, stalks and finally gets George Macready, the heavy. During the unnecessarily long time the job takes, he becomes foreman for a ranch-owning widow (Sally Eilers), converses occasionally with a lady (Marguerite Chapman) who runs a hotel with photogenic interiors, and is chivalrous to the heavy's drunken wife (Barbara Reed). Although these ladies plainly suffer serious emotional upsets every time he comes near them, Randolph scarcely seems to notice. He is much too busy riding up, down and across the landscape, looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...also engages in an unusually brutal fight with the heavy's henchman (Forrest Tucker). One novel detail of the fight: they stomp one another's trigger fingers into bone splinters. When, at last, it is made clear that Scott is avenging his murdered fiancee, it is easy enough to understand why he hates the heavy and turns up his nose at the girls; the only mystery is why he waited till the last reel to explain himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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