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...Fairbanks on the current job is 29-year-old Tony Curtis, who plays the broadsword, mans the barbican and generally acrobattles with such enthusiasm that no one should be disturbed by a few Curtis crudities. Example: when he kisses a girl-in this case Janet Leigh, who is Mrs. Curtis in private life-a great wet smack is heard all the way to the back of the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...minimum of merit. It has the lovely, if generally untalented, Janet Leigh. Although much too little in view, she does brighten up Camelot considerably. There is also a fine fire at the end that features the burning alive of a few underpaid extras, plus a bit of fancy broadsword play...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Prince Valiant | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

...past week Jean-Paul Barricelli '45 2G (center) has been devoting his evenings to teaching John Peters '45 (left) and Robert Fletcher '45 (right) the manly art of self-defense with broadsword and shield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Swords in Sundry Directions . . . | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

...Words. Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill are the two men alive in the world today who best understand the power of words as weapons of warfare. Their techniques are different. Hitler uses words as poison gas; Churchill uses them as a broadsword. Yet he, too, can be cunning. Last May he wrote a letter to Benito Mussolini couched in the sort of language Captain John Smith might have used to a savage chieftain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Man of the Year | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...honor and respect, before the dread signal is given. It will never be given by us." This plea failed, but last week Winston Churchill made it again, this time over the head of II Duce in a broadcast directly to the Italian people. This time he used his broadsword. He said: "One man and one man alone has ranged the Italian people in deadly struggle against the British Empire and has deprived Italy of the sympathy and intimacy of the United States of America. . . . One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Man of the Year | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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