Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roberts has passed the complaints along to James R. Stewart, superintendent of caretaking, who will try to work them out with the help of House superintendents and Yard janitors...
Richard W. Hulbert '51 and Richard S. Stewart '51 beat freshmen Malcolm D. Rivkin '53 and Samuel E. Karff '53 in a debate at the Union last night. The topic was: "Resolved: That the U.S. nationalize all basic non-agricultural industries...
Speaking at Indiana University in Bloomington, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt admitted that she'd like to have a couple of Hoosier hogs for her Hyde Park, N.Y. farm if she could get them for $100 each. Farmer L. L. Stewart of Kirklin, Ind. sent her two 300-lb. black & white Hampshire gilts, for which he ordinarily gets $200 each. Said Farmer Stewart philosophically: "She set her price...
Malaya (MGM) squanders Spencer Tracy, James Stewart and a name-heavy supporting cast in the kind of adventuresome folderol that lesser studios crank out regularly on small, starless budgets. Such high-priced talent probably seemed worth using while the story was still an idea based on an authentic wartime scheme: the smuggling of rubber out of Japanese-held Malaya. But the picture beats the basic idea into pulp fiction...
Before abandoning itself to derring-do, the film tries briefly to ring true by doggedly underplaying its account of how Stewart, a down & out newspaperman, persuades the government to free a convicted smuggler (Tracy) and send the two of them off on the rubber-smuggling project. The understatement is so clumsily overdone and ill-suited to the characters and situation that it defeats...