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...uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons, medals, and stars and bars of every rank. "Any sonofabitch Nazi catches me," said Todd, "he'll give me the VIP treatment." During the filming of Giant, the picture's co-producer appeared on the set one day, ashen-faced after a terrifying drive through the studio back lot with James Dean. "Shoot those extra Jimmy Dean scenes quick," he told Director George Stevens. "He's going to kill himself in that...
Haunted by blue and grey and ashen yellow...
...million Italians went to the polls for national elections and rewarded their experimenting Premier with a jolting setback that cost his party 730,000 votes and may well cost him his job. The apertura might survive, but its future-like Fanfani's-would be riskier than ever. Ashen-faced, the pint-size (5 ft. 1 in.) Premier faced reporters in the Chigi Palace on election night with uncommon shock. "The Christian Democrats,'' he declared, "have been declared as the relative majority party, even if by a narrower margin than before...
...against the Common Market. But as he rose in the vast seaside sports stadium at Brighton, he astonished his socialist "brothers" by the passion of his 84-minute speech. The middle-road intellectuals and union leaders who have shared his views and fought his battles sat back in ashen-faced disgust as Gaitskell, longtime champion of NATO and other internationalist policies, piped the party down the road to timorous isolation from Europe. Hugh Gaitskell's fiercest foes, the leftists who still repeat the late Aneurin Bevan's taunt that he is "a desiccated calculating machine," led tumultuous rounds...
Black for Strength. But when he showed up for the final round, characteristically dressed in black ("It gives me strength"), Player looked like anything but confident: his eyes were red-rimmed, his face was ashen. Remembering that horrible week at the Masters tournament last April when he wound up tied with Palmer, then blew a big lead in the next day's 18-hole playoff, Player had not slept a wink. "I kept remembering that Masters playoff, and I began to worry," he said. "I don't want to be known as a choker." For 18 holes...