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Life Beat, at the Kenmore, is one of Alfred Hitchcock's best. Tallulah Bankhead is characteristically emotional. Also on the twin bill Gregory Peck stars in The Keys of the Kingdom...
...oafish earnestness and the plodder's mentality for ability, brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing on the lawn, than it is to start a new magazine when starving in an attic in the Village or be bursting with potential in the mailroom at $27.50 a week...
Told they were a mimeographed copy of a speech, he smiled and said, "Why, they do your work for you." Wrote Correspondent Bucknell: "Bucknell's reaction to said smile: something on the order of a bobby-soxer suddenly being confronted with Gregory Peck." Our entire Letters column in this is sue deals with only one subject - our recent essay on "The Younger Generation." Approximately 80% of the letters we received came from the people we were writing about, those in the 18-to-28 age group. Their volubility seems almost like an effort to disprove one thesis advanced...
...troubles they faced together as man & wife. The result is a hybrid with neither the grace of fiction nor the substance of biography, but it ought to make a ripsnorting movie. Darryl Zanuck, foresighted in such matters, has already bought the film rights and is thinking about Gregory Peck as Andrew Jackson, Olivia de Havilland as the President's little woman...
Captain Horatio Hornblower.Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo in a rousing swashbuckler based on the C. S. Forester novel (TIME, Sept...