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...black South Africa and was known throughout the union as "King Kong." A hero until his death four years ago, he has since become something of an African god. He would clobber his challengers in the ring and later pulp them for good measure in the street outside. Braggart as well as warrior, he let his crown slide, ended up as a dance-hall bouncer who jealously murdered his mistress. Begging for capital punishment, he was given twelve years at hard labor and drowned himself by a prison...
...help. At a special performance of The Magic Flute by the Vienna State Opera, he dozed off to sleep, an amazing affront to opera-loving Viennese. And next day, when Communist-led workers in an automobile factory gave him the warmest reception of the trip, Nikita turned beaming braggart. "I am like the merchant who comes to the market with a bag full of goods," he said. "I can say to all of you: Wrap up all your goods and send them to us. We can buy all of Austria." Nikita was just as cavalier about Berlin...
...same, Henry IV is almost unthinkable without Falstaff. Whether in the bottle scenes where he swaggers like a general, or in the battle scenes where he quivers like a jelly, this thieving, braggart liar, this gorging, guzzling "huge bombard of sack" who lives on his wits and gets by on his charm so bestrides the play that the great danger is he will completely distort it; he so domineers over it on occasion as to send royalty and even history packing...
...Joker & Braggart. In 1935 at the age of 26, Errol Flynn leaped spectacularly into the public eye in Captain Blood, and was well away on a film career that made him a sort of "rich man's Roy Rogers" whose color spectacles were almost as popular as the off-color spectacle of his private life. The lusty, naive young knockabout from New Guinea became the bored Mocambohemian. "The Baron," as his buddies called him, built the usual $125,000 mansion and kept a yacht, filled both of them with "roisterers, fun guys, rompers" and the sort of girls they...
Barely two months ago, in a moment of unwonted honesty, Red China's braggart overlords admitted that the economic achievements of 1958's Great Leap Forward had been vastly inflated, and revised their 1959 production goals downward. But the price of truth proved too painful. Fortnight ago, during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Red takeover in China, Premier Chou En-lai complained: "The imperialists ridicule our adjusted 1959 plan as a 'big leap backward' . . . Obviously, it is a continued great leap forward on the basis of the exceptionally big leap forward [the year...