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...said they were guilty of "excessive social consorting, including drinking of alcoholic beverages, with Communist 'journalists.' " The Army's Stars & Stripes, which itself had played up every Communist-fed picture and story it could get, joined the attack. It charged that newsmen from "both sides whoop it up with each other's booze while on other parts of the front . . . the two sides are toasting each other with grenades and lead...
When he first read the letter from England last January, James N. Gape, 46, a valve company salesman and father of two children, let out a whoop of joy. His cousin's widow, Mrs. Sibyl Marion Geraldine Gape, had named him heir to an English estate that had been in the family for 500 years; it was worth, even at current rates, a tidy $270,000. There were two fine ancestral houses-Caxton Manor, with 16 rooms, 1,000 acres and three farms in Cambridgeshire; St. Michael's Manor, a 14-room, spacious-lawned house in Hertfordshire that...
...Chappie's car delivered the colonel at the front door of the little reservation school, Visiting Chief Thunder Cloud split the air with a lusty war whoop of welcome. Movie cameras from the Trib's Chicago television station ground away as the colonel stalked stiffly in and took his seat on the schoolhouse stage...
Based on Elliott Arnold's 1947 novel, Blood Brother, the picture is a fictionalized account of war & peace between the Chiricahua Apaches and Arizona settlers in the 18703. Instead of the blood-lusting savages who whoop endlessly across the U.S. screen, its Indians are proud, dignified warriors with their own cultural tradition, a stern code of honor and a justified hatred of the white invaders. Their tribal chief, Cochise (well played by Jeff Chandler), is an able strategist and a wise statesman. The story works up such sympathy and respect for him and his tribe, and such distrust...
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