Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings on, and eat them up"). Father goes upstairs to give the lad a spanking. "It was on the second-floor landing," the tale concludes, "that they found the shoe, with the man's foot still in it, like that last morsel of a mouse which sometimes falls unnoticed from the side of the jaws...
...stuck for an ending" to her woeful tale, Lana is near a legal separation from her third husband, Millionaire Bob Topping, playboy tinplate heir. But like any Hollywood heroine, Lana can always count on a happy turning in the script. Last week Hollywood gossips reported her moving into a romantic closeup with a tall, dark and handsome Latin named Fernando Lamas. Says Lana: "I am quite sure that around the corner there is something good...
...Tall Men (Columbia), a tall adventure tale of the French Foreign Legion, treats its old formula so lightheartedly that it becomes the beau jest of the genre. Burt Lancaster, the devil-may-care sergeant, recruits nine rough, tough men from the Legion's brig (Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias et al.) for a dangerous mission. The regiment is away from the fort; Riff tribes are uniting to attack. Lancaster's outnumbered riffraff must hold off the Riffs until reinforcements arrive...
...second quarter, Tale threatened to score again after Harvard ran out of downs on its own 30. Yale took over on the Crimson 16 with five seconds remaining in the half. But a long pass to the end zone failed...
Offensively, it was a sadder tale for the Bulldog. Highly-touted halfback Jerry Conway deserves a considerably lower touting after going approximately nowhere against Princeton. Ryan and sub Ed Mulloy, although the former is very deceptive (even pulls a bootleg on occasion), were consistently rushed through a porous line, and threw looping basketball-passes to reliable receiver Ed Woodsum. Yale's one magnificent back is Mr. Spears...