Word: val
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unfashionable Cause. No. 54 was Economist Val R. (for Rogin) Lorwin, 46, adopted son of eminent Labor Economist Lewis Lorwin, who in 1934 went to Washington to work for the Taft family on the state papers of President William Howard Taft. Soon, he moved on. Lorwin and his wife joined the Socialist Party in 1935; with eager energy they plunged into work for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, a bitter Socialist rival of the Communist-led Sharecroppers Union. Lorwin worked in several New Deal agencies until the war when he was an Army lieutenant assigned...
...trip. When after several days of balloting it became obvious that he was going to be elected Pope, he fled in consternation from his fellow cardinals. Msgr. Merry del Val, later his Secretary of State, found him in the Pauline Chapel on his knees, his head buried in his hands. "Monsignor, you can persuade them. Tell them not to vote for me," Sarto pleaded. When the commander of the Noble Guard went to take his first orders, the new Pope offered him a chair with his own hands. When the commander protested, the Pope said sadly: "It was nice...
...little did Sir Gawain (played in rancho accents by Sterling Hayden) know that Prince Val had been abducted by vile Viking traitors, the lady Aleta being merely a tasty dividend for the false king Slidor. While Sir Gawain pouted in a brown study Val was clambering about Scandinavian battlements winning back his father's kingdom...
...doughty Val, Robert Wagner is false to Harold Foster's hero. The King Syndicate Viking prince is merely a good natured simpleton, not an active dolt. But if Wagner's poor acting makes Val's claim to the sword Excalibur and a seat at the Round table seem bogus, it also makes one question his right to annoy Miss Leigh and hide her from the camera. This comes of sending a squire to do a knight...
With the exception of James Mason, who either has a very strict contract or needs money, the rest of the cast is mostly composed of unemployed wrestlers headed by that Scandinavian rogue Primo Carnera. In all, the picture makes one wish to see Val and his friends in the funny papers...