Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very funny, but nobody laughed. Then Director Ford, still sitting down, gave the cue: he threw back his head and rocked with laughter. From that moment, Duke began to revere John Ford. Not to be outdone, Ford gave the youngster his fatherly affection. "I could see," Ford says now, "that here was a boy who was working for something-not like most of the other guys, just hanging around to pick up a few fast bucks. Duke was really ambitious and willing to work. Inside of a month or six weeks we were fast friends, and I used to advise...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...days. But he was out on the moors, delivering a baby, when his stock crashed, leaving him ?7. Cronin decided that he had learned another priceless lesson; he dug into his pocket to buy the newborn baby a silver mug, inscribed with the youngster's name and the words, "What money...
Search for a Hero, by Mississippian Thomas Hal Phillips, is the most successful. The hero, Don Meadows, is a quiet youngster who has long felt overshadowed by his football-playing brothers. Don's father doesn't think much of him either, and that is another reason Don volunteers for the Navy. Don survives training, battle and a wound, and goes back to his home town to find that the war hasn't changed his stay-at-home brothers very much, or himself either. He decides that the real battlefield of life is the self. At 29, Author...
William Holden is largely responsible for the accuracy of this portrayal. He plays the title role honestly, turning in his best friend when he needs money and blowing town when things get hot. Johnny Stewart, the youngster he instructs in the jockeying trade, has made an impressive debut in this film...