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Tepee Camp. Calgary's 31 hotels were booked solid. Some 75,000 people jammed the streets, pushed and shoved through the midway sideshows, watched a four-mile-long parade that included everything from Indians to Sherman tanks. Indian families camped in tepees...
...Japanese took a battleship of the Yamato class while still under construction, converted her to a carrier, named her the Shinano. At 59,000 tons, she was 14,000 tons larger than the Midway class, the U.S. Navy's mightiest...
...Rose prose, with a base of carnival-barker shrewdness and a pink topping of cotton-candy poetry, has caught the crowd like an inspired midway pitch. Only last week his column caught 17 more papers. By June 10 he expects to close a deal sewing up 3,000 U.S. weekly newspapers. That would put him thousands of readers up on Winchell himself. With no pretense to modesty, Columnist Rose predicts: "I'll be second only to the Bible...
...Midway in the second day, selection of an all-white jury was completed. Prosecutor Watt got down to work. His first witness was J. Ed Gilstrap, 62, the jailer at Pickens. Ed told about turning Willie Earle over to the mob. "I thought they meant business," he said, grinning. "They had a gun." Who was in the mob? Ed wasn't sure...
...control in pure melodrama it is one of the best pictures of the year-a frank and intelligent drama, powerfully directed and beautifully played. The true subtleties of classroom torture, as distinct from the simple brutalities, have never before been shown on the screen with such penetration. But about midway, Torment goes into double focus. What began so firmly, with such compassionate reality, becomes embroiled in mere horror-melodrama. In the long run, by trying to handle two things at once, the picture loses its grip on both...