Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seasons is track, winter and spring, and here again Yale has been the usual thorn in the Crimson's side. Another annual athletic truism is that Harvard's track teams improve considerably in the spring. Perhaps this is because of an increase of weight events in the warm weather version of the sport. Small, quiet Coach Jaakko Mikkola, a former Olympics javelin star, is a master at tutoring young and strong but untrained men in hurling the javelin, discuss, hammer, and shot...
Stark's own version: "All I had to do was . . . hold my hat in my hand, and people whom I'd been cultivating for ten years and who trusted me would come and drop stories into...
Novelist Dreiser, who was outraged at Hollywood's earlier version of his book,* might well have felt flattered by the new one. No director could hope (or want) to reproduce the mass of detail which Dreiser took from life to fill out the case history of a young man charged with the murder of his cast-off sweetheart. Moviemaker Stevens, working with an intelligent script by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown, captures the power of the novel without its heaviness, the insight without the inventories. The story still flows inexorably from the springs of character and environment. And though...
...typical Maxwell performance one night last week began with a fast, explosive samba, went on to a sentimental arrangement of Kurt Weill's September Song and a plunky version of I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover. The final numbers: a medley of Gershwin tunes and a swing arrangement of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Says Maxwell: "I play Liszt as I think Liszt would play if he were alive today." The supper-club crowd hushed down to devoted silence for Maxwell's 20-minute performance, even when their glasses stood empty...
...Place in the Sun (Paramont), judging from the competition so far, is the picture to beat for IQSI'S Academy Awards. Producer-Director George Stevens' modern version of the late Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is at once a faithful adaptation of the novel, an artful job of moviemaking and an engrossing piece of popular entertainment...