Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitcher Bill Voiselle batted .097 last year, quite a disappointment to the big man. He wanted his average one point lower, to match both the number on his back and his home town, Ninety...
...writer from the Russian zone has been smuggling out his replies through friends crossing the border in Herlin, although so far he has received American letters uncensored. He is a student who tutors grade-school science during off-hours in his small East Baltic town; he says any belief that the German people are capable of governing themselves is a "joke." The student, who refuses to allow his name to be published because of possible punishment by Russian occupation authorities, cites the Welmar Republic, under which "the German country, with her 65,000,000 inhabitants, was not able to find...
...Paso (Paramount) is a morally cross-eyed western about a young Eastern lawyer (John Payne) who has trouble telling right from wrong. Payne, just back from the Civil War, arrives in El Paso in search of his sweetheart (Gail Russell) and finds the town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking...
Producer Babb, sparkplug of this unusual moviemaking team, pushes Mom and Dad as if it were snake oil. The film is shown only to unmixed audiences after a town has been saturated with a ballyhoo campaign that leaves no one but the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life. Each of the 16 prints of the film now touring the U.S. has its own advance man, plus a lecturer and two "nurses." The so-called nurses revive spectators who faint during the bolder medical sequences. During intermission, after the lecturer's spiel, they help...
...Some papers, like the Boston Herald, have done it bluntly, and on a propaganda level, stupidly. Last week, that paper splashed a story all over page one about the grip that communists supposedly had on Lawrence, Massachusetts, without a single fact to back it up. It pictured the mill town threatened by near-revolution in such a hysterical way as to amuse even the least skeptical reader; the thinness of the mixture made the Herald's story an obvious piece of propaganda...