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...Among the merrymakers were Shipping Tycoon Stavros Niarchos, Cinemastars Linda Christian and Hildegarde Neff, Liechtenstein's Prince Constantine, Irish Beer Heir Loel Guinness. As the evening glowed to a climax, roly-poly Winston Churchill II, 16-year-old grandson of Sir Winston, leaped on a table, grabbed a cane, gaily began popping the balloons...
...Lake Maracaibo area would be the joyous national equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. Last week, in nine countries within 1,500 miles of Maracaibo, the quest for black gold was on more earnestly than ever before, with U.S. oilmen leading the pack. In rain forests and cane fields, dozens of drilling rigs probed for the telltale "show...
Shark No. 1 is Mr. MacHeath, legendary killer and gang leader, once popularly known as "The Knife." At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared...
...current production is no more than a very competent one; it cannot convey a needed sense of grand-staircased crescendoes and crystal-chandeliered wit. As Magnus, Maurice Evans has his real virtues, and the right polished utterance, but for parry-and-thrust he uses a gold-headed cane instead of a rapier, and he seems in manner more tutorial than ironic...
Just a year ago, Birdseye returned to the U.S. after two years in Peru, with another triumph to his credit: a method of converting sugar cane wastes to paper pulp in twelve minutes v. nine hours for the old process. Though he suffered from heart trouble and had to lead a strictly regulated life for the past 20 years, he said: "Still other ventures are afoot, and the days are not long enough for me to take advantage of all the opportunities...