Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YEARS OF THE CITY (567 pp.)-George R. Stewart-Houghton Mifflin...
...bestselling, Pulitzer-Prizewinning autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis. Parked before them was a nostalgic replica of The Spirit itself (the original plane is enshrined in Washington's Smithsonian Institution). The film's Lindbergh will be played by lone-eaglish Cinemactor James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, himself an Air Force Reserve colonel and wartime B-24 wing commander (20 missions), who last week got the Air Force's exceptional civilian service award for his help in promoting U.S. air power...
...bureaus to buy its service so that they could read Russian news as it came off the teleprinter in their own offices. But reporters permanently assigned to Russia still found their movements carefully held in check. And most of the newcomers were reporting little that was new. Even Columnist Stewart Alsop, who arrived in Russia last week after "writing personally" to Khrushchev for a visa was forced into an unusually humble admission. Wrote Alsop: "Alas, after fully four days in Russia, this reporter still does not know the truth about this strange country...
...reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost exactly reproduced, while the affectionate bond between a rogue and youngster that illumined both Kidnapped and Treasure Island is duplicated in Moonfleet by Rapscallion Stewart Granger and Orphan Jon Whiteley...
Freshman heavies: Captain Honry Jordan, stroke; Stewart Hussey, seven; Geoffrey Locke, sex; Howard Dickinson, five; Charles Atkinson, four; John Eager, three; John Ellefson, two; Nick Tilney, bow; Reed Bement, coxswain