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...life, and he is swept away on plans to produce an unending series of love films-carnal and spiritual, full-length and short-for TV. straight cinema, schoolrooms, garden clubs, anyone who wants to hear the gospel of human affection and tenderness. Says he: "I will become the colossus of love...
...idea of Russian bases in Cuba is "bunk-comic-opera stuff." The Kremlin is too smart for that since such bases would be indefensible. Communists in Latin America are concealing direct ties to Moscow, hammering at the U.S. as "the colossus of the North" through nationalist, anti-imperialist propaganda themes laid down by the 21st Communist Party Congress at Moscow in early...
Feeling No Pain. To the Post, Dorothy was a "colossus of gainful employment," daily parading in fame and trailed by envy. At the very start of its first article the Post lifted an eyebrow at the fact that Reporter Kilgallen covered New York's 1957 welcome to Queen Elizabeth from "the lonely splendor" of a limousine in the official procession up Broadway. (Says Dorothy: "What's wrong with that? I rented a limousine, and some darling generals and police captains were nice enough to let my car swing into line with the procession.") "At 47," said the Post...
...people he represents. Somehow-with flashing smile that never faded, with dignity that never truckled, with simple words that went down as well in Argentina as they do in Abilene-the President got across the message of creative friendship and collective responsibility in the name of the long-misunderstood "Colossus of the North...
Running this cook's colossus is a job for a man with tried and tested ingredients. The man: Charles Greenough Mortimer, 59, the solidly packaged (5 ft. 10 in., 195 lbs.) chairman and chief executive officer of General Foods. The ingredients: a mind as restless as a bubbling stew, a big pinch of Madison Avenue savvy, a full measure of shrewd selling experience. All this is mixed with an insatiable curiosity about the U.S. woman-what food she buys, what she would like to buy, and how it can be made easier to serve...