Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. J. Scott Smart, 57, radio actor and mimic who capitalized on his physique (270 Ibs. at his prime) to portray Dashiell Hammett's urbane gumshoe The Fat Man from 1946-52, with his gruff voice convinced listeners he meant it when he snarled "murder," as on other radio shows he convinced them when he squawked like an ostrich, croaked like a bullfrog, orated like Huey Long; of cancer; in Springfield...
...people who want nothing more out of life than a little personal happiness. The husband, on the other hand, is a foulmouthed, beer-bellied, wife-belting brute. The heroine's honor is smirched "just once," and this not so much for her own pleasure as to comfort the man she loves, who has been shattered by the death of his young son. What's more, the poor hero has been hounded all his life by a monster of a mother (Mildred Dunnock) who intends to keep her son if she has to kill...
...customer expects from Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty] Odets. Scriptwriter Odets here takes his first crack in 15 years at directing a picture, and perhaps should be forgiven some errors of inexperience. But seasoned Producer Jerry Wald might have done something about Actor Franciosa, an almost comically intense young man who reads every line as though it were his last. No such luck...
...Burmese out there in the Kachin hills, and a Japanese peeping from behind every other orchid. Fortunately, the enemy looked like monkeys and were awfully dumb. U.S. Army Captain Frank Sinatra was running the show, a Tommy gun in one hand and a bottle in the other. What a man. They called him "the Abe Lincoln of North Burma." Back in Calcutta on leave, Frankie met Gina Lollobrigida, who decided he was the biggest thing to hit those parts since Errol Flynn. "Say," said Frank, "you're put together like a Christmas package.'' Gina played hard...
...like his other books, it will probably be a rattling good story and no literary masterpiece. No mound of Ph.D. theses on symbols and significance is likely to be stacked over Shute's books. Yet later years may find them a remarkably reliable portrait of mid-20th century man and his concerns. Shute himself read little, but in Henry James's words, he qualified as "one of the people on whom nothing is lost...