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...acres, but much preferred dabbling in politics. While Whitten Sparkman discharged the duties of his occasional political jobs -jailer, deputy sheriff or local judge-his sons chopped cotton. Sometimes the family income dropped below $200 a year, and all of the children's clothes were the handiwork of Julia Sparkman, their gentle, Bible-reading mother...
...dislikes housework, is on the federal payroll at about $3,000 a year as a secretary in Sparkman's office. They live in a three-bedroom, white brick house in Washington's Spring Valley, which they bought in 1948. Their only child, handsome, 28-year-old Julia Ann (who plans to campaign for her dad), lives with them at present: her husband, Navy Lieut. Commander Tazewell Shepard Jr., is awaiting orders to carrier duty...
Other "tressure" of the collection are the scrapbooks and papers of Julia Ward Howe and the personal letters of Arthur Gilman, 'Cliffe's founder, in which he wrote of his ideas of founding an "institution for the higher education of women offering the same course that Harvard offers men" and listed his original choice of faculty members...
...slopes of Mt. Hood. Having eliminated most of the badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River as a molasses-slow deckhand on a river boat...
Bend of the River is a case in point. James Stewart is a fearless but good-humored hero who defeats insurmountable difficulties. Arthur Kennedy is as black a villain as there ever was, and Julia Adams is a fine heroine. The story brings in wagon trains, a gold-rush, slick gamblers, and even a Mississippi paddle-wheeler...