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...Littlest Outlaw (Walt Disney) is what the trade calls a "wetback," i.e., a Hollywood picture made in Mexico to save money. The story is all about a little Mexican boy (Andres Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They...
...those who sit in their rooms fingering the pages of Hemingway and looking wistfully at the blank spaces in the Atlas, The African Lion will be sheer delight. In about an hour of colored photographs, Walt Disney's newest live animal film presents a truly remarkable sequence of scenes involving the wildlife of the African plains. The achievement of the film is not only one of photographic excellence, but of sheer persistence...
...should discover a behind-scenes maneuver whereby a dainty Butterfly is achieved only through a cure with special macaroni." Six Roman Catholic Holy Name Societies in southern New Jersey protested because a new $100 million bridge between Philadelphia and Camden, N.J. is named after a longtime Camdenizen, earthy Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman. Reason: Whitman portrayed "the common man" as "homoerotic," i.e., hankering perversely for other common men. A rebuttal came promptly from the former head of the public agency that built the bridge: "We could find [no] evidence that Walt Whitman was homosexual. A genius sometimes does things...
...Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen, gave Poet Walt Whitman his sturdiest monument, a huge, perhaps overstuffed life that probably includes every available scrap of information about Walt...
...Crimson and the U.S. Olympic team could result in a meeting of the Cleary brothers, sophomore Bob and last year's All-American center forward Bill. Besides Bill Cleary, other former varsity players presently trying players out for the Olympic team include defenseman Doug Manchester and 1953 Captain Walt Greeley...