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...poor Indian know that in biting the. dust he was launching a literary fad, and that it would change the lives of half the boys in the civilized world. For hot on the heels of North's bullet rode Ned Buntline, the famed dime novelist, all agog to plump Tall Bull's slayer into one of his thrillers. North, a simple soldier, refused to be blown up into a "paperback hero." "If you want a man to fill that bill," he told Buntline, "he's over there." He meant the "young giant with sleepy eyes and straw...
Chants of "Bertha!" A K.L.M. airliner flew Bertha and her mother home to Holland. The whole country was agog over their arrival. There were shouts of welcome, chants of "Bertha," government greeters, hard-pressing cameramen and reporters. Through it all, the jungle girl kept a sullen look. At the Hertoghs' festive home town, Bergen op Zoom, Bertha met her brothers & sisters. After a bit, two of her sisters persuaded her to come with them on a balcony and see the townspeople below. She did so. As Bergen op Zoom cheered, Bertha's sullenness gave way to a smile...
After seeing his performance in The Men, Hollywood began to believe Brando's extravagant advance publicity. His personal eccentricities, as well as his acting skill, had the film colony agog. He appeared to be the first genuine "character" since Garbo. Dressed in his usual cotton T-shirt and greasy jeans, Brando shunned the big stars and their glittering parties, brushed Hedda Hopper aside with a few vague grunts, spent most of his time roaming the back alleys and bars, sometimes without shoes. The $150 weekly allowance from his father (who invests the rest of Brando's earnings...
...Olympian judgments. Fellow critics swarm about Critic Eliot like an army of Lilliputians, trying to tie him down to some systematic "school"; when he stirs to reverse one of his previous unfavorable decisions (as he has been known to do, notably in the case of Milton), the swarm is agog for months...
...love Louse Angeles, I came here all agog. To find myself a lone D.P., Invisible in smog...