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Back to Bataan (John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi; TIME, July...
...story of one year in the life of a family of Texas cotton farmers: a sad, querulous, disintegrating old woman (Beulah Bondi), a young man (Zachary Scott), his wife (Betty Field) and their small children. This is the strenuous, upward year after they have climbed the rung from migratory labor to tenant farming. They are not, like the people in The Grapes of Wrath, caught in historical currents greater and crueler than they can fathom or successfully fight; mainly they are involved in a contest with the land and the seasons...
...Daniel Beltz swore it was true. So did Mrs. Beulah Hunter, 25. And Baby Penny Diana did have a knowing look about her. But other doctors at Los Angeles' Methodist Hospital found it incredible that Mrs. Hunter had been pregnant 375 days (instead of the normal 280) before her baby was born there last week; 375 days would be the longest pregnancy on record, topping the runner-up by about 58 days...
Gothenburg, Neb.'s Beulah I. Hilblink : of the 112,000 U.S. public schoolteachers who quit their classrooms in 1942-43, she was one who helped solve the teacher shortage by returning to her classroom. Quitting a Washington job, she made a statement which has been read by thousands of teachers: "If in the years of peace ... I am asked, 'What did you contribute toward our victory?' I shall be glad and proud to answer,'I was a teacher...
...their girls' backs. ... It was the greatest bit of excitement that I had ever seen, just to walk in the great procession and hear the people laugh and talk. . . . Before we had gone far up on the mountain, Brother Baggs . . . said: 'Brothers and sisters, let us sing Beulah Land!' If you don't think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days. Try it when the July sun comes down upon your back with blisterin heat and the lizards are scurryin over the dead leaves ahuntin...