Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Africa's version of "white mule" is a raw, locally distilled brandy which scalds its way down the throats of South Africans of all shades and colors at the rate of some 3,330,000 gallons a year. In the dingy shebeens (speakeasies) dotting the big-city slums, any man with a stomach strong enough to imbibe this fiery liquid in greater quantities than his neighbors becomes the official "Brandy King" of the district. Brave is the toper who dares challenge his asbestos insides...
Noel as a brilliant, devastating heel-a West Side version of a Scott Fitzgerald hero-rarely rings true. But his deterioration and his ultimate meaning are convincing. "He takes the current myths for solid facts," says one character about him. "It never occurs to him that the Oedipus complex really doesn't exist, that it is a piece of moralistic literature. He's as orthodox as your own father, Marjorie, in his fashion . . . making a life's work out of being dogmatic, clever, supercilious-and inwardly totally confused and wretched...
...television, Sinatra is about to star in a Spectacular-type musical version of Our Town, and last week NBC was chasing him hard with a five-year contract to do seven shows a year. The proposed nut: about...
...could you exclude this deserving version...
...pasture airport on Long Island, a few miles from the take-off point of his epic transatlantic flight in 1927, Air Force Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh, 53, chatted with Producer Leland Hayward about scenes to be filmed there for the movie version of Lindbergh's bestselling, Pulitzer-Prizewinning autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis. Parked before them was a nostalgic replica of The Spirit itself (the original plane is enshrined in Washington's Smithsonian Institution). The film's Lindbergh will be played by lone-eaglish Cinemactor James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, himself an Air Force Reserve...