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Paul R. Rugo '55 testified at the meeting that "We got to the station. . .we went single file through a tunnel. Just as I got to a bend in the tunnel, someone asked me, 'You hurt bad sonny?' I turned around to answer him and I was whacked two times on the head, I don't know with what. Then another cop came up and told the other...
...become an eyesore. (Indians called the weaving, U-turning river "drunken-old-man-going-home-at-night.") Distressed citizens raised funds for a beautification program, got WPA help, dredged and cleaned the river, built arched bridges, cobblestone terraces and walks, planted trees, grass and flowers along the "big bend" section. Today the river park is the city's pride...
Heavy enough hydrogen clouds, however, manage to bend the magnetic lines of force into a gigantic funnel. Then sun particles pour through into the earth's atmosphere. Oxygen atoms near the earth's surface begin to glow and sparkle when struck by the speeding hydrogen. All through the "magnetic funnel" the luminous oxygen shimmers and shines in crimson and yellow and green streamers, which are the waving rainbow of the northern lights...
...Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...
...potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River as a molasses-slow deckhand on a river boat...