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...rifle, a perfect one-in-a-thousand specimen of the 1873 Winchester (.44-40), is won by James Stewart in a shooting match. Then it is stolen by his brother (Stephen McNally), who is being hunted down by Stewart for the murder of their father. Before the hunt ends, the rifle is lost & found by half a dozen other characters, giving Director Anthony Mann plenty of story line to tie together some classic horse-opera situations. Among the episodes: the scalping of a crooked trader by redskins; a deafening battle between Indians and the U.S. cavalry; the ambush of desperadoes...
...been trying to study a human embryo in the first hours after conception. Last week, Dr. Hertig told the International and Fourth American Congress on Obstetrics and Gynecology, meeting in Manhattan, that he had succeeded in studying the youngest human yet: he had put under the microscope a specimen which was obtained only 60 hours after the ovum had been fertilized...
...role of the likable dolt-a type that show business calls a "schnook" (rhymes with took). Competing with such notable professional chumps as Dennis Day, Ozzie Nelson and Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Young was only a passable schnook in his 1944-47 radio show, a fair-to-medium specimen in his movie roles (Margie, Chicken Every Sunday, Mr. Belvedere Goes to College). But in his carefully planned opening TV show for Esso Standard Oil Co., aired in the East last week (Thurs. 9-9:30 p.m., CBS-TV), Young was just about as -convincing at schnookery as any man could hope...
...regarded poetry as a full-time job. To have daily contact with other work, he says, "gives a man character as, a poet." Promptly at 8:15 every weekday morning, Insuranceman Stevens strides into his Hartford office. Often he hands his secretary a crumpled bit of paper bearing a specimen of his minuscule handwriting-his poem for the day. Sample (in which he uses a blue guitar as a symbol of the poet's transforming...
Eliot types all his verse. He is a slow worker and tireless reviser. He loves words, and when he comes across a particularly fine specimen he stores it away for future use: sometimes he also makes up words, e.g., "polyphiloprogenitive...