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...Lady Takes A Chance (RKO-Radio) takes quite a few. It takes a chance with one more treatment of a well-worn story-pattern (the Cowboy & the Lady), and emerges from the scrimmage with a broad grin to offset its black eye. It takes a chance with making the cowboy (John Wayne) rather more than a nice boy, the lady (Jean Arthur) rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short...
...like socks; ya gotta change 'em often." Miss Arthur, who has marriage in her eye, is sure that "any fella that can love a horse can love a girl." Charles Winninger, Wayne's elderly sidekick, tries to warn her that she is "barking up the wrong cowboy." It turns out that he is wrong...
...likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn't pack the wallop that "Gunga Din" or "Roy Ralston--Cowboy...
This was På Återseende (Auf Wiedersehen) for Gunder, who has come to like the U.S. (especially malted milk, cowboy clothes and baseball). He had broken three records: world's official two-mile (best time, his own unofficial 8:47.8, set in Sweden last summer), the U.S. 1,500-meter (3:47.8) and U.S. outdoor mile (4:05.3). He began packing to go back to Sweden. There in his absence another runner, his friend, hulking Arne Andersson, had smashed Gunder's mile record with a mark...
This week the Gannett Washington bureau opened with a good, hardworking, conservative newspaperman as its head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...