Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...35th closest to his heart: the aging warriors of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, whom he had commanded in France. That afternoon, while 250,000 people cheered along St. Louis' sun-baked downtown streets, he led them-and the rest of the 35th - in a 16-block parade...
Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...
Scripted by Virginia Kellogg and Bernard Schoenfeld, Caged has a tendency to spell out all emotions-especially sentiment-in large, block capital letters. But John Cromwell's direction has some unblinkingly realistic moments, and Caged ends on a stringent and unexpected note: paroled at last, Eleanor joins up with a vice ring and the hard-bitten warden gloomily reserves a cell for her early return...
...driver could hear. Handsome, 31-year-old Driver Parsons had placed second in the big race last year, and his Wynn's Special, with its new high-compression (13 to 1) Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine, had performed beautifully during the tryouts. Now the threadlike slit in the engine block threatened to crack his hopes wide-open. But heavy-footed Johnnie Parsons had no thought of withdrawing on that account...
...down for only a minute, but that was enough to make the track glass-slick and end the race. The winner, at the end of 138 laps: Johnnie Parsons, who pulled down the driver's 35% of a record $57,458.63 in prize money. Despite the cracked engine block, his average speed was better than 124 m.p.h., upping Bill Holland's record-breaking 1949 average (for 500 miles) by 2.675 m.p.h. Holland was second, Rose was third...