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...born; the scene in "A Streetcar Named Desire" where Marlon Brando shouts for his wife after he has beaten her; the ballet sequence that provided the finale for "An American in Paris"; Vincent Price and a boatful of Mexican police sinking into the bay with Price standing in the bow--cloak tossed over his shoulders--in "His Kind of Woman"; Alec Guinness descending the subway steps near the end of "The Lavender Hill Mob" to the music of a rhumba band, as the scene changes to South America climaxing Guinness' flight with the subtle relief of his escape; Elizabeth Taylor...
...sales of more than 1,000,000 copies each. But before he became the darling of the cloak-and-swagger set, Author Shellabarger, a onetime Princeton professor, wrote sober-sided biographies. One of these. Lord Chesterfield and His World, published in Britain in 1935, is making a belated U.S. bow. Scholarly Author Shellabarger has taken a firm grip on a slippery subject: a man with the moral instincts of a chameleon and the temperament of an icicle...
...told the combined Galveston luncheon clubs: "If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison . . . But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government." In New York he declared: "Possibly we have become too regardful of things that we call luxuries . . . Maybe we like caviar and champagne when we ought to be out working on beer and hot dogs. Whatever it is, the thing that has happened to us is of the spirit...
Republican Direction. Before the American Bar Association in St. Louis in 1949, Ike tagged himself as a middle-of-the-roader, but his road seemed to be going in a Republican direction. Said he: "We will not accord to the central government unlimited authority, any more than we will bow our necks to the dictates of the uninhibited seekers after personal power in finance, labor, or any other field...
...children of Pueblo also got fascinated being with "Pop" Spann. Each morning at opening time, he was there in his old striped trousers and black bow tie, waiting to greet them. If they cut themselves, he would bandage them. If someone broke a bicycle, he could always fix it. And when they wanted him to play with them, he was always willing, even though it meant staying long after closing time to get his own work done...