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...hordes of self-appointed holy men (estimated total: 8,000,000) who roam all over India like carnival medicine men in the frontier U.S., wandering the face of the land in search of a quick rupee, with little to attest to their powers but a loin cloth, a straggly beard and a fanatic mien...
...suggestion of worry showed in Chou's handsome, beard-tinged features as he plodded stolidly along the party line. Home from Rangoon, Murrow followed the filmed interview with a live discussion in which Nationalist China's U.N. Ambassador T. F. Tsiang and others meticulously picked apart Chou's words. Rebuttal was unnecessary...
Anthony Quinn, now 41, is a Hollywood actor who in 20 years before the cameras has seldom been permitted by his employers to create anything more significant than a three days' growth of beard. In 1952 Director Elia Kazan gave Quinn a good part in Viva Zapata!, and he won an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. In 1954, while on a visit to Italy, Quinn made a memorable meatball of the carnival strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada, and last year he produced a vivid portrait of a genius as Painter Paul Gauguin...
...that his ability to walk, not to mention fly, was a highly dubious question. With another year, morality entered the picture, and we decided that a big-red-nose was a sure sign of excessive drinking, his bulging waist a sign of slovenly eating, and his shaggy-white-beard a sign of sloppiness and laxness...
...GOOD EVENING. . ." He peered beyond Storyville's spotlights. "Charlie, turn the mike down." Charlie left a ringside table, yanked his beard, swivelled some dials, and clipped off a few decibels from the loudspeaker...