Word: wrights
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Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt is the second feature. This revival stars Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright as uncle and niece in a tense family situation involving murders, detectives, and telepathy. For a Hitchcock, this film moves along very slowly, though it has some fine moments. Patricia Collinge, the world's most insipid mother, lives through the picture. Otherwise, this is a highly satisfactory co-feature...
Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; on Colington Island...
...WORKS OF LOVE (269 pp.)-Wright Morris-Knopf...
Nebraska-born Wright Morris does more than dedicate his new novel to Sherwood Anderson: in an almost filial gesture, he consciously patterns his story on Anderson's work. The locale of The Works of Love is Anderson's sleepy Midwest of the 1900s. Its style is an echo of Anderson's tone of baffled affection. And it focuses on an inarticulate man, Will Jennings Brady, who mistakenly tries to become a go-getter...
...turn of the century, the mustiness of shabby hotels, the pathos of a man who cannot communicate with other men. When he goes astray, it is usually because he tries too hard to follow the narrow path of Sherwood Anderson's imagination. A writer as good as Wright Morris doesn't need to imitate anyone...