Word: wagonload
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to Jimmy Dean, Julie Harris's role is most demanding, and she carries it off with all her girlish charm. She romps with Aaron, comforts Cal, and appears as the most genuinely loveable character in the wagonload of "good" characters in "East of Eden...
When the TV bunkhouse got so crowded last year, everybody reckoned somebody would have to go. Yet after the usual summer cleaning, none of last season's wagonload of "adult westerns" had moved on, leaving 21 oldtimers right where they were, and for two of them-Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel-that means a cushy rating spot on the top of the Nielsen Rating's top ten. TV producers recognize a mother lode when they see one, and they have moved with mule-skinner determination to pile it even higher: by last week a nerve-shattering total...
...early 1900s. With indifferent conservation, the duck population plummeted to about 30 million in the 1930s, threatening an end to the sport. Today's bags are carefully limited and so is the season, which lasts about 2½ months in each area. No hunter comes home with a wagonload of mallard, but most everybody gets a duck dinner, and leaves plenty of birds for next year...
Windfall. In Harbor Springs, Mich., the chamber of commerce, pushing the town as a pollen-free haven for hay-fever sufferers, offered schoolboys a dime a pound for any ragweed they could find, backed down hurriedly when youngsters hauled in a 1,400-lb. wagonload...
...Mathias Story (Allied Artists), in purely cinematic terms, is nothing more than a wagonload of newsreel clips hitched to a star. But that hardly matters, since track-and-field Wizard Bob Mathias (TIME, July 21, 1952) is a dazzling star to watch. He plays himself in this modest picture, which straightforwardly takes him from his high-school days in Tulare, Calif, to the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where, at 17, he surprised the world by winning the decathlon; then on to Stanford, where he played some first-class football; and finally to the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, where...