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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water hose the British censors brought out their scissors. "It's an act someone could imitate," they said. A particularly good example is that Cinema scope epic, "King of the Khyber Ribes." In one scene the natives have a rollicking time galloping back and forth as they toss spears into the captive Britishers-no American censor murmured a word of objection. In Europe, however, the "atrocity" found approval for showing in only a few countries. A Hollywood expert has estimated that about four out of every five cuts are because of "that excess sadism." Both Britain and Australia are especially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Madness | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Point as a messboy and in time joins the Army, who marries Maureen O'Hara and becomes not only an all-around trainer but confidant and informal adviser to a long gray line of cadets. Since it all began in 1896, Director John Ford gets a chance to toss in the names or quick flashes of the faces of the West Pointers who later became national heroes: MacArthur, Patton, Bradley, Stratemeyer, Wainwright, Van Fleet, and in the scene depicting the first Army-Notre Dame football game of 1913, a fierce young Notre Dame end, Knute Rockne. There is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Eddie had good reason to toss and turn. To any student who intends to spend his life as a stockman, a judging contest is more than just a game. It means days of extra training (six to eight hours a week, plus special workouts during holidays); it is as nerve-racking as a final exam, as grueling in its way as a Ph.D. oral. It is also a part of U.S. education that is duplicated nowhere else in the world. "What we're trying to teach the boys," says Livestock Expert George. Reid, "is the sense of making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Judgment Day | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...victory for either team. Dartmouth's George Bixby is its best man in both these events. Last year Bixby set a Dartmouth freshman record in the shot with a eave that was well over 49 feet. McCurdy expects that Art Siler may need to improve on his 48ft. 8 toss in the B.U. meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners to Face Green at Hanover | 2/12/1955 | See Source »

Carl Goldman should, however, beat Bixby in the weight throw if he can continue to toss the weight beyond 50 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners to Face Green at Hanover | 2/12/1955 | See Source »

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