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Methodical ground advance would probably not catch this 60,000. On Friday, General Ridgway staged Operation Tomahawk to do the job. A fleet of Flying Boxcars and C-46s dropped some 3,300 paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team (11th Airborne Division), plus attached Rangers, on the flatlands around Munsan, 22 miles northwest of Seoul and twelve miles below the 38th parallel. Under Brigadier General Frank S. Bowen Jr., it was the second and biggest paradrop of the Korean war; the first took place last October north of Pyongyang (TIME...
Last year, exhibitors cured the box-office anemia of 20th Century-Fox's A Ticket to Tomahawk by changing the title to The Sheriff's Daughter. Last week, despite good reviews, the same studio's U.S.S. Teakettle proved surprisingly anemic in its first bookings. The company decided to yank the movie out of release, give it the same kind of tonic. New title: You're In the Navy...
...battle of the Horseshoe, Chief Junaluska [of the Cherokees] had saved the life of Andrew Jackson by driving his tomahawk into the skull of a Creek warrior who had Jackson at his mercy. When Andrew Jackson became President ... he repaid this debt by ordering the Cherokee removal. So you see that even celluloid cliches have their counterpart in real life...
Saddle Tramp (Universal-International) follows lamely in the footsteps of comedies that spoof the western (The Paleface, A Ticket to Tomahawk), and gives up the trail too soon for its own good...
...Tulsa, J. C. Hunter, president of the Ralph Talbot theater chain, took matters into his own hands. To boost lagging business on 20th Century-Fox's farce railroad western A Ticket to Tomahawk, he renamed it The Sheriff's Daughter, and his box office boomed. Last week Fox officials grudgingly admitted that Theaterman Hunter might have a good point. The studio gave all exhibitors permission to substitute the more inviting title for A Ticket to Tomahawk...