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...Gregory Peck...
...flamboyant technicolor flashback thoughts about his misspent life and the stories he has failed to write. Hemingway used those flashbacks effectively to tell you a little about his writer: 20th Century Fox uses them only to sneak in one colossal scene after another. Thick and fast they come: Gregory Peck by the Seine, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner at the bullfights and in the Spanish civil war, Gregory Peck and Hildegarde Neff splashing about the Riviera, Gregory Peck, friendly natives, and several hippopotami in an African river. All this is interpolated into a clinical, wince-by-wince history...
...Harvard Observatory will hold the first of four "open nights" for the public at 8 p.m. tonight. A lecture, "Life on Other Planets?" will be given and, if the weather is clear, the audience will get a peck through the observatory scopes...
...Cambridge Committee was organized by Robert Conley '43 and Russell Peck '43, assistant dean at the Law School. Mayor Joseph E. DeGuglielmo '29 and former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 will conduct the opening, and Borden Stevenson '55, the son of the Presidential candidate, has been invited to attend...
Between lovers' quarrels and reconciliations, Peck shoots a charging rhinoceros,' fights lukewarmly on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, writes a succession of bestselling novels, and spends his spare time feeling desperately sorry for himself...