Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is some pathos in the stffry of a widowed concert singer (Jeanette MacDonald) who sees her only son hit and killed by a truck, but the sentiment sours when the scripters make Jeanette a self-centered, self-pitying woman. There is also some promise in the relationship between the singer and an orphan boy (Jarman) whom she meets in the Carolina Mountains. But the association never quite comes off. For one thing, young Jarman is uncomfortably overgrown and incurably quaint, and he is pictured as a ninny. Perhaps the only character to live up to expectations is the general...
Samaritan. Near Brooks, Ore., Truck Driver Ray C. Turney stopped to help a motorist in distress, had James R. Faris arrested when he recognized the stalled automobile...
...great regard for the prize itself; he believes the selections are generally poor and he is appalled that "Hemingway, one of our best writers, has never gotten it." Yet the creation of George Apley (and perhaps the winning of the Pulitzer) made further truck with Mr. Moto distasteful to his creator. He went on writing about Moto, "but it gradually came over me that slick-magazine writing -where the hero slips on a banana peel and the heiress falls in love with him and they get married and go off to Monte Carlo-was baloney. It was very late...
...Bermuda, but I never got the chance. This was the only way . . ." And for a more solid tug at the heartstrings, there was a Harlem mother in tearful collapse after her daughter, little Carmelita Rodriguez, and her playmate had been killed by a coal truck in a "safe" play street...
...Manager Edgar Kaiser, Henry's nimble-witted son, knew he had to get his costs down somehow. Last week, he announced a $2,088 utility car, $136 cheaper than other K-F cars (it has no chrome and fewer frills). The utility car is a combination car and truck which K-F hopes to sell to small tradesmen, farmers and sportsmen. The rear seat folds into the floor and there is a station-wagonlike gate in the back...