Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, Avery Brundage's crusade to keep dollars out of amateur sport got him small thanks. Canada was still calling him names because he virtually forced Skater Barbara Ann Scott to return a Buick the citizens of Ottawa gave her (TIME, May 19). Last week, when the Olympic Committee gathered in Stockholm, the Swedish press got in a few rounds of a favorite indoor game which anyone can play: putting pins in Brundage...
Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe lovingly caricatured Good Friend Perkins as "Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile! How straight in cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness...
...Unfaithful (Warner) is the story of a too-lonely wife (Ann Sheridan) who concealed her unfaithfulness from her husband (Zachary Scott); and of the anguish that ensued when he found out about it. Such a story, honestly told, could have had the customers on the edges of their seats, and could have made a fortune at the box office. But that was too simple. The Unfaithful tells it in the complicated or Hollywood...
...dealer (well played by Steven Geray) try to blackmail her. Her efforts to keep the truth from her husband bring on other complications and the whole business becomes a court-and-headline scandal. Battling their way through the excess plot like machete-swinging explorers of the Mato Grosso, Mr. Scott and Miss Sheridan express the emotions that might be expected of them; acidulous Eve Arden and earnest Divorce Lawyer Lew Ayres finally persuade them to give their marriage another...
...picture has a reasonably grown-up point of view, although it never suggests that Scott's jealousy, and his childish indulgence of it, might be as ignoble as his wife's deceit. But it urges, in fairly blunt terms for the screen, that war wives suffered from celibacy as well as the sugar shortage. There is also a suggestion that forgiveness is desirable and hasty divorces undesirable...