Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Ladd is a company policeman in the days when roadbeds were rough and railroading rougher, Preston winds up on the villains' or losing side. There are some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...
...Based on Frank H. Spearman's bestselling novel of 1906, which has been filmed twice before (1915 and 1926), provided material for a 1925 movie serial called Whispering Smith Rides...
Past, he also left a voluminous correspondence. Now, after more than a quarter of a century, Mina Curtiss' selection of his letters (which the onetime Smith College associate professor has translated herself) makes most of them available in English for the first time...
Businessman. In Moffat, Ont., Grocer Russell Stock Elsley raced into a burning house to rescue Harry Smith, modestly shrugged off praise by explaining: "He's a good customer...
Behind 46 to 35 at the half, the varsity's Ed Smith and Bob Bramhall led a second period renaissance which failed because the team was unable to completely halt the Red and Blue scoring...