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...private secretary. While at Eton he awed a somewhat older Etonian, George Brunswick, for life. Since George happened to be Prince of Wales, Brummell had no difficulty in entering high society, and was soon acknowledged "absolute monarch of the mode." Even the Prince of Wales once "began to blubber when told that Brummell did not like the cut of his coat." But at last the Beau and his patron had a falling-out; Brummell's gambling debts went unsettled, and he fled to France, where he died in 1840 of paresis. In the film Brummell is at one moment...
...Zero (Warwick; Columbia) is a hot-weather chiller that strives not so much to entertain the moviegoer as to air-condition him. Thus the scene shifts quickly to the Antarctic Ocean, where Alan Ladd is chasing whales and Joan Tetzel. Unfortunately, he catches the whales first, and though watching blubber slowly being stripped from a whale may be educational, it does not sharpen an appetite for the love scenes...
Also, Gassy Lamentation. Today, Author Hecht believes, "the artist is a vanishing figure . . . Individualism has dried up." All the girls, he complains, have become "masculinized," all the men soft as blubber. Police state government bleeds the citizen with taxes, relentlessly watches his every move. It is a far cry from the good old days of 1921, when Author Hecht, acting as "fund-raiser" for a Baptist group, "persuaded the Baptist synod ... to offer a prize of $5,000 for the best biography of the Savior," entered the contest under "the name of a needy Baptist pastor"-and walked off with...
Meat for the Mink. For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
...below the water line, but the skiff stayed in the drive. Ashore, 12-year-old Charlie Williams thrust a lance into a beached whale. The din was terrible: clanking tin cans, shouts from fishermen, screams from women on the beach and a frantic pounding of whale tails on water. Blubber for the Plant. Examining the carcasses, the fishermen found that they had set a season's record: 3,200 with three weeks still to go. Best previous year was 1951 with 3,047. Hauled up on the beach, the whales were sculped (stripped) of the blubber and meat, which...