Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite shortcomings, including a hero who is pretty much an overgrown boy scout, Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller (1880) is the most expensive and the best screen spectacle ever produced...
Mamma Was Boss. So much of Anne Bancroft seems never to have left home that one friend still describes her as "a Girl Scout of The Bronx, leading Brownies through Palisades Park." Anne likes to disagree. "I get so tired of saying I was born in The Bronx," says she. But the continuing search for herself keeps taking her back to the series of low-rent apartments in the neighborhood of St. Peter's Avenue. "We were a typical Italian family," says Anne, "very lower middle class." Mamma was the boss. It was Mamma, working as a telephone operator...
...Billy Cannon, 22, Louisiana State; 6 ft. 1 in., 207 lbs. Major: pre-dentistry. "A cinch to make the pros on offense, or even defense; one in a century." Rated side by side with Cannon: Army's Bob Anderson, 21 (6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs.). Says one scout: "If Anderson were eligible to play, he'd be a No. 1 draft choice. But he's got that three-year obligation to Uncle...
...film has its failures. The movie hero is pretty much an overgrown boy scout who never experiences the moral struggles that beset the hero of the book. Then, too, the story sometimes lags-not, oddly enough, because it is too long but because it is too short. For the final script, M-G-M eliminated an entire subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary...
...Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Having "bared my chest to the enemy," Barden aims to block any repeal "with every energy that...