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Roughrider Roosevelt also provided the President with an opening for a sly answer to critics who like to say that Ike lets Congress lead him around by the nose. In the popular image, he said, Teddy Roosevelt "galloped down Pennsylvania Avenue on a spirited charger with his saber drawn, rushed into the Senate or the House, demanded what he wanted and rode out with everybody cowed. But the fact is he was a wise leader. He used every form of polite advance including," said Breakfast Host Eisenhower, "many breakfasts...
...clock in the Kremlin Spassky tower chimed 10 as Defense Minister Nikolai Bulganin, resplendent in gold-braided dress uniform, arrived in Moscow's Red Square. He came not astride the usual cavalry charger, but perched on the back seat of a dove-hued ZIS sports car. After briefly touring the crack units up for review, he joined Georgy Malenkov and the eight other Presidium members atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb. As 150 massed bugles unloosed a mighty blast, he advanced to the microphones and began the traditional address on Soviet Russia's 36th...
With its royalty and rogues, affairs of state and of heart, and conquests military and romantic, Fanfan the Tulip bulges with color. Gerard (Devil in the Flesh) Philipe bounces through the title role with zest, leaping from balconies, rooftops and cliffs with the greatest of ease, riding a white charger to the rescue of fair damsels, besting his enemies with fists, swords and guns and altogether making an entirely likable scamp. As the main object of his affections, Italian Actress Gina Lollobrigida is so shapely that she seems to bulge from the screen in the best 3-D style. Directed...
...horse!" cried a looker-on. "No one can check him!" At that instant John of Oversley, a young English squire, shouted to his friend Robert of Kinwarton: "Shoot, Robert . . . shoot to turn the King's horse!" Robert shot. The arrow sang before the startled eyes of the charger and he reared back. And so, as Author Dorothy Charques tells it, King Richard was preserved to go on the Third Crusade, and squires John and Robert, as their reward, got a chance to go along in his personal entourage. Men Like Shadows is Squire John's story of their...
...have to clean the show up. Kitty would have to be living with her parents on a sweet little ranch . . . And Matt, he'd have to wear buckskin and swagger around with his guns blazing. He'd even have to ride a pure white charger. Of course, if a sponsor did come along who would let us leave Gunsmoke as it is, then we'd really be pleased...