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Only a few friends gathered at Cleveland's Union Terminal last week when Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) left town. But Cleveland knew he had been there. For 3½ years, as majority stockholder and impresario of the Cleveland Indians, 35-year-old Promoter Veeck had turned the crank that gave the town its dizziest merry-go-round ride in years...
...only have to crank it once in a while," he says. "In the winter it gets cold, but in the summer it's the wildest thing on the road...
...story moves swiftly to a climax in which Hero & friends fail, like Boy Scouts trying to crank a tank, to bring about the first sputter of a revolution. At its best, The Iron Hoop reads like a somber farce. Otherwise it has the curious distinction of being readable and interesting without evoking the slightest sympathy for any of its characters...
Oliver Twist had opened without fanfare in a second-rate theater in the British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...
Nuclear fission used to be a subject upon which a writer could simply crank up and let loose, but no longer . . . Space flight is still good for a yarn, but already one university offers a course in theoretical astrogation...