Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Eleanor Roosevelt came away from the Broadway hit version of Advise and Consent filled with "depression and disgust," she reported in her syndicated column. "I know how ruthless and how utterly discouraging politics can be. I think I know how to remember one's friends and how to fight against one's enemies. But I have seen this done without stealing, without doublecrossing and without threats." Particularly worried by the impression the show might make on Manhattan-based U.N. delegates, the one-time First Lady angrily declared: "If this were wartime, I think one would cry treason...
Exodus. Despite its four-hour duration and pro-Zionist tirade, the film version of the bestseller about the birth of Israel is an expert, inspiring political thriller...
...Tunes of Glory, the screen version of James Kennaway's moody and affecting novel, Jock is both hero and villain of a garrison tragedy. The tragedy begins when Jock, as acting C.O., is superseded by "a spry wee gent" (as Jock ripsnortingly describes him) "wi' tabs in place o' tits." The new colonel (John Mills) is in fact a rather glum plate of porridge, but he is just what the battalion needs on the morning after old Jock's riotous regime. He tightens up training procedures, clears out the administrative mess...
Sikorsky barely beat its chief competitor, Boeing Airplane Co.'s Vertol Division, into the field. Vertol has converted its twin-turbine military helicopter into a civilian version called the Vertol 107, will begin turning out production models early next year. The 107 will seat 26-30 passengers, cruise at 150 m.p.h. New York Airways has already ordered...
Part Two describes the reign of terror imposed on Palestine by the ultranationalist cults of violence (Irgun Zvai Leumi, Stern Gang), and culminates in a film version of the famous mass breakout of Acre prison that will be studied for years as a master's thesis on the cinema of escape...