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Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
Operation Pacific (Warner) carries two forms of box-office insurance: a war subject (see below) and popular He-Man John Wayne. It is the kind of movie that needs all the insurance it can get. Writer-Director George Waggner has grafted a tiresome love v. duty romance on to the well-tried story of U.S. submarine exploits...
Relating the story of a freshman misfit, the book suggests that the "secret to social success" is to be found in an R.O.T.C. uniform--friends are easier to win, girls are easier to date, and the summer training maneuvers make of "the shy freshman a regular he-man...
Even before publication, Dr. Velikovsky's book has attracted wide comment and admiration. Harper's Magazine gave it a solemn preview entitled "The Day the Sun Stood Still." Collier's ran a he-man's version called "The Heavens' Burst." In the latest Reader's Digest, Fulton Oursler hailed Velikovsky as the starter of a back-to-the-Bible movement. Connoisseurs of pressagentry will credit Macmillan Co. with skilled use of an up-to-date technique: getting widest publicity for a doubtful article before critics have been allowed...
...back into the nets to the greatest ovation ever given an athlete in Maple Leaf Gardens. Injured Ted ("Teeder") Kennedy, captain and star center, swung back into harness and the Leafs roared through their next 19 games with only two defeats, four ties. They were playing the kind of he-man hockey that Smythe and Toronto fans liked. Said he, crisply: "We'll outbump or outskate any team in the league. When other; teams are hitting with 25-lb. sledge hammers, we're hitting with 100-lb. sledge hammers...