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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mole not 200 yards from the Little White House at Key West, a 3-in. cannon boomed out the Navy's 21-gun welcome to its visiting Commander in Chief. Harry Truman stirred fitfully in his sleep. Not until the 17th report, he told his aides, did he shake himself fully awake. Then he hopped out of bed and acknowledged the last four booms by standing at attention in his pajamas. When the firing ended, he tumbled back into bed and snoozed peacefully until...
...weeks' leave in Miami, 1st Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, onetime fast-stepping West Point football star, sidestepped questions about his reported engagement to Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17. Just after the warm greeting, a conscientious photographer caught Elizabeth helping Glenn wipe away the traces of lipstick...
Winthrop, which was assured of a tenpoint lead after the first two houts, west on to win the House wrestling championship last night with 19 points to Kirkland's 16, All four men in the 128 and 136-pound classes were Puritans. Thayer's 13 points were enough to cop the freshman crown...
Perhaps the most incredible scene in the picture is when Frank James, armed with a battered Winchester, confronts the man who shot his brother in the back. The most feared desperado of the Old West glares a vengeful glare at his quavering victim and snarls in deadly tones: "I could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin...
About the only thing to be said for the film, outside of its merciful shortness (75 minutes), is John Ireland, who grapples hopelessly with the role of Bob Ford. Ireland, like Richard Widmark, broke the code of the West by making a hit in his very first picture, "Red River." His punishment, like Widmark's, has been banishment to the salt mines of Grade B for the required term of apprenticeship. It is still a pleasure to watch Ireland slouch casually around a set, but this time his effortlessness is wasted on a miserable part...