Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three male roles--the successful lover, the defeated childhood sweetheart, and the ghost of Nathaniel Coombs--played by Robert Sterling, Robert Smith, and Richard Waring are also handled well. Waring, who did a magnificent portrayal of the schoolboy in "The Corn Is Green," has retained his Welsh accent, and after a weak first act start, he makes the ghost into a warm and believable figure...
...another. Or perhaps the clubby, family nature of the House has something to do with it: so many knew each other at Winchester or Eton, and again at Oxford or Cambridge. The other day, speaking on a corporal-punishment bill, a brigadier M.P. lightly recalled how he as a schoolboy had been wrongly caned by an honorable member a few feet from him. It was all very chummy...
...every intelligent schoolboy knows, there was no need for all this huffing. Uncle Sam would never condemn people to starvation out of spite. Last week 14 Senators and ten Representatives banded together to press for bipartisan action. Among them was Minnesota's Representative Walter H. Judd, a courageous champion of China's Chiang Kaishek and a dead-aim critic of Nehru's foreign policy. And Wisconsin's raspingly 110% American, Senator Joe McCarthy, came out for feeding the Indians. This set the scene for the announcement that President Truman would shortly make a formal request...
...ominous offscreen voice introduces the picture and most of its characters, lingers over a definition of "vendetta" until the dullest schoolboy in the balcony can understand what it means. Then the movie spells out its story just as laboriously. Colomba (Faith Domergue), a proud Corsican beauty, determines to avenge her father's murder by members of the villainous Barricini family. She makes her brother (George Dolenz) the instrument of her revenge and, incidentally, the object of her more-than-sisterly affections...
Arizona-born Hector Escobosa drew his first bead on the business world as a schoolboy window dresser (at no pay) for San Francisco's cavernous Emporium. While attending the University of California nights, he moved on to sales promotion and dress buying at Hale Brothers, and after a stint as vice president and manager of Kansas City's big-volume Jones department store, became boss...