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Farmer William L. Booth, a stocky, rugged-looking man, had read the ad in the Farm Bureau magazine. It sounded good: "HOOSIER HAWAIIAN AIR-A-VAN: Away from home only 22 days, yet 18 full BIG days of Hawaiian enjoyment. Actually see and visit Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, huge volcanoes. Live on Waikiki Beach for a week and take part in a big broadcast." He decided to take his wife and eleven-year-old son, too. The price for the whole family...
Although Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer are excellent in their representation of life as Inge has painted it, he allows his theme to come out too bluntly. The first scene reveals a dream of Miss Booth's in which she is walking with her dog, Sheba. As they slowly begin their trip, Sheba is admired, but as they walk faster and faster, passing many blocks, Sheba becomes lost. Miss Booth calls for Sheba to come back, just as she is trying to call her youth back, but events have passed since she has achieved this admiration and Sheba does...
...drama is essentially one of emotions. Miss Booth, previously known as a comedienne, reveals herself as a sensitive actress. Her interpretation of a housewife who tries to regain her former happiness by reliving her youth through a young couple presents a tragic episode of the highest calibre...
Miss Peckham maintains that there are many rewards in being a TIME researcher. One of them: she met her husband that way. On a trip to the Grumman Aircraft plant for a TIME story during the war he emerged from a telephone booth and introduced himself as the public relations man who was to show her through the plant. Says she: "Sometimes I have to remind him that I got him out of a phone booth...
During his years in the booth, Burke resisted inversions by countless mike-crazy students who wanted to talk over the public address system, guided visitors to every corner of Cambridge; he was also badly inured when a truck hit the booth and rolled it several feet...