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Whenever a Stat Officer meets a fellow. Stat Officer, a first question is always "the latest from Harvard?" --Major J. J. Heflin...
...Major Heflin has been a squadron commander at Chanute Field, Illinois. He was Headmaster of Greenbriar Military School in West Virginia for about ten years, and he has been a Reserve officer since 1924. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts, and has a wife and three children. In the first week of June, 1942, he was made Commandant of the Statisticians at Harvard...
Tennessee Johnson (Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore; TIME...
Andy Johnson's story is a natural for the cinema. An illiterate, runaway tailor's apprentice, Andy (Van Heflin) arrives in Greeneville, Tenn. with shackles on his ankles, has them chopped off by the village blacksmith, sets up a tailor shop, is taught to read and write by the young village librarian (Ruth Hussey), who becomes his wife. Under her guidance Andy is elected sheriff, Governor, Senator, Vice President...
...Congress: mean faces, scheming faces, corrupt, stupid, generous, brave and honest faces-the composite face of democracy. To make such an intangible dramatic and occasionally even tangible is no mean achievement. Director Dieterle's split-second direction is partly responsible, but chief credit goes to Actors Barrymore and Heflin. As fanatical, silver-tongued Thaddeus Stevens, Lionel Barrymore gives one of the best performances of his long career. Van Heflin's job is a brilliant tour de force. A veteran of second-rate Hollywood films (Seven Sweethearts, Grand Central Murder) and of the stage Philadelphia Story...