Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a Senate subcommittee last week appeared a little man with a long tale of woe. The man was Sidney Gould, head of a small Brooklyn company which nickel-plates towel racks and auto bumpers. His woe was the black market in nickel. "To get any nickel," he told the Senators, "you practically have to open a peep hole and say 'Benny sent me.' Of course, if you want to pay the price and meet the terms-meaning cash so the OPS can't keep track-then there's no shortage...
...This tale led to the revelation of an eminently novel twist. Investigation proved that neither H. A. McDevitt nor J. H. McKeown had ever existed except in Schlekat's imagination: he had stolen the bank's money to buy the bank...
...honor system rather than the students. "Its chief weakness," said Dean Henry G. Doyle of George Washington University, "is that every man pledges himself to be guard not only of his own honor, but of that of his fellows. This immediately runs afoul of the tradition against the tattle-tale." Added Manhattan Psychiatrist Marion Kenworthy, "We older persons . . . are as responsible as the students when we create psychological temptations...
David and Bathsheba (20th Century-Fox), apparently inspired by the phenomenal box-office take ($11 million in its first year) of Samson and Delilah, sends Hollywood back to the Bible for another censor-proof tale of a strong man's weakness for a beautiful woman. Like the Cecil B. DeMille opus, the new epic is a Technicolored potion concocted from equal parts of sex, spectacle and religion. But Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's mixture, neither so rich nor so heady as its predecessor, comes dangerously close to serving as a sleeping potion...
Disappointing as spectacle, David and Bathsheba is no more successful in its frank tale of adultery. Even the most sensational episodes are weighted down with portentous airs and long-winded prattle, and while the picture gathers an ever loftier mood of religiosity, David and Bathsheba seem to spend nearly as much time suffering and repenting their sins as committing them...