Word: busters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter...
...world of music had found a slave ? one who would, if he could, become its master. Jennie Bernstein's little buster started slowly, but at 20 he came busting out of Boston's unfashionable suburbs with alarming drive and talent. The tone for his spectacular career was set with the now legendary incident, 13 years ago, when, as a virtually unknown, 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, he triumphantly substituted for ailing Bruno Walter ? without rehearsal. "Like a shoe string catch in center field," explained the New York Daily News. "Make...
Knowland was a britches-buster in other ways to the august U.S. Senate. In a forum where youngsters are supposed to be seen but not heard, Knowland set out by tackling-and tumbling-none other than Mr. Republican, Ohio's Bob Taft, on an issue of budget policy. In an institution where seniority is the road to prominence, Knowland leaped to the forefront before his first full term was half over. He became the Senate's leading Republican spokesman on the most acrimonious issue of the day: U.S. policy toward Asia. How it happened is typical of Bill...
...than 46 stars of stage, screen, radio and TV. Among the hit-players: Charles Boyer, Joe E. Brown, Martine Carol, John Carradine. Charles Coburn, Ronald Colman, Melville Cooper, Noel Coward, Reginald Denny. Marlene Dietrich, Fernandel, Sir John Gielgud, Hermione Gingold, Jose Greco. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Trevor Howard, Glynis Johns, Buster Keaton, Evelyn Keyes, Beatrice Lillie, Edmund Lowe, Peter Lorre, A. E. Matthews, Robert Morley, Edward R. Murrow, Jack Oakie, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton...
...Block Buster: story written from the files...