Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Desert Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...
Heller and his two associates, Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48 and Scott Elledge, former instructor in English, with the backing of the Student Council, then began the job of raising the money and organizing the faculty while ISS made arrangements in Salzburg for housing and food...
Escape (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS). A dramatization of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz...
...England, the Old had the edge. A 1940 air raid left 14th Century Coventry Cathedral a Gothic shell; in 1944, while bombs rained on England, a dispute started raging on how Coventry should be rebuilt. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 67, a Roman Catholic, and one of England's foremost ecclesiastical architects, readapted a design which the Church of England had used but forgotten so long that it seemed new: a cruciform cathedral with the high altar at the center of the cross. This design provided sections of the cathedral where non-Anglicans could worship by themselves. Most of England...
...plainly have a real feeling for jazz and the feeling shows up on the screen with honesty and warmth. The genial touch of Elliott Paul (see BOOKS) is often clear in the script; the Negro musicians-notably Armstrong, Singer Billie Holiday, Trombonist Kid Ory and Guitarist Bud Scott-act and play their music with freedom and pleasure. At the end, regrettably, jazz becomes "respectable"-probably the worst break it could...