Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...
...front bench of Labor gasped in surprise at the size of Be van's rebellion. Attlee, mild in appearance but a ruthless taskmaster in matters of party regularity, jerkily jumped to his feet, left the House without a word, and took the train to his Buckinghamshire home. But next day he ordered an emergency meeting of all 294 Labor M.P.s for this week, to consider the defiance of his leadership. In rebuttal, brash Nye Bevan demanded and got an emergency session of Labor's executive committee, to be held later in the week. Bevanites are outnumbered...
Businessman's Flyer. Antoine Pinay, 60, was on a Paris-bound train when the stationmaster at Dijon handed him President Auriol's telegram inviting him to try his hand at forming a cabinet. Pinay, an Independent Republican, had never considered himself a likely Premier. With his neat crinkly hair, his long thin face, glasses, and his trim little mustache, he looked just what he was: a small-town French businessman...
...genius" by summing up the various positions on each question in all fields. Tentative title of the work: Summa Dialectica. Adler already has a grant for the project from Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. He does not expect to live to see it finished, but hopes to train a staff to get it done before century...
...that's not all. The elephant trainer, jealous of his female assistant, wrecks the circus train, severely injuring the circus owner, bringing the girl aerialist back to earth, and causing James Stewart, up to now a kindly clown, to be picked up for the murder of his wife. Meanwhile in a small, furnished room on the other side of town...