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...first, in Hollywood's golden sky, it looked like a cloud no bigger than a publicity man's handout. But by last week it was a fat thunderhead of pressagentry that threatened to soak the U.S. right down to its grass roots. Paramount called it a "motion picture merchandising method...which sets a completely new standard in harnessing opinion-influencing power to film promotion...
Green Grass of Wyoming (20th Century-Fox). Thunderhead, son of My Friend Flicka (Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, 1945; My Friend Flicka, 1943), is a wild, spectacular white stallion who gallops magnificently from ranch to ranch scrounging beautiful young mares by the dozen and leading them off to his harem deep in the hills. In the current installment this beguiling libertine is transformed into as meek a monogamist as ever commuted from Westchester...
...high points-Thunderhead's sensuous, rushing and wheeling courtship dance with the night-sleek Crown Jewel, and the heartbreaking, helpless panic of the two horses when the mare has foundered belly-deep in sucking mud-present unused possibilities of much greater suspense and excitement than the man-made climax of the trotting heats...
...decisive effects of weather and sunspots on human beings. His latest book about them: Man-Weather and Sun. He is definitely against spring (TIME, March 25, 1946). This week he broke out again in his annual rash of anti-spring fever: United Press and This Week carried thunderhead interviews...
...dollar, you can see Flicka, Smoky, and Thunderhead at the Boston Garden this afternoon. For free, over at Franklin Park, where lire Varsity cross country team matches strides with Rhode Island State and B. U., you can see Bob Black, Manuel Caetano and half a dozen other R. I. S. Rams who have been known to run much faster than the above-listed nags...