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...classical school. Producer Disney declares categorically: "These horses are human.'' They are at any rate more intelligent than most of the people connected with his picture. Any donkey could have written the script ("These horses are very unique in the world"). The supporting players (Lilli Palmer. Curt Jurgens. Eddie Albert) are obviously off their feed. And Actor Taylor-well, frankly, a horse that acts the way he does would instantly be shipped to the glue factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Last of the War Horses | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Their staff, with front liners Bob Gibson, Ray Washburn, Ernie Broglio, and Curt Simmons, and relievers Bobby Shantz and Diomedes Olivo, is not demonstratively inferior to the Giants...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/18/1963 | See Source »

...Cardinals have a tighter, hungrier club. Their infield is speed, power and reliability; with Groat and Julian Javier batting ahead of Bill White and Ken Boyer, the latter should raise their combined total of 200 runs batted in. The Cardinal outfield is every bit as strong: Curt Flood (.296), George Altman (.318) and Stan Musial (.330). If Minnie Minoso can head the bench, the Cards will be hard to stop...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/18/1963 | See Source »

Colgate boasts a fine goalie in Curt Brown (seven seasonal shut outs) and a good forward line that has amassed 116 points in 22 games. The Raiders reputedly depend upon a hard-checking style of play similar to the B.C. brand of hockey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Opens Bid in ECAC Against Colgate in Watson Tonight | 3/5/1963 | See Source »

Oddly, the British, who have found it hard to abandon their other ties and their ancient insularity, took great umbrage at De Gaulle's questioning of their European sincerity. Said Tory Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "We do not accept any curt dismissal from the European stage. The days when we might retire into proud isolation from the Continent are finished, and Britain is irrevocably part of Europe and the Western Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: A New & Obscure Destination | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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