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...finally give the Brooks the pitching to go with their hitting. The Giants' pitching has not improved this year--they should be eased out of second place by the Phils, the youngest and best balanced squad in the League, with Del Ennis and Richie Ashburn in the field, and Curt Simmons and Robin Roberts on the mound...
...felt that "an artist must also be a personality," he fashioned a personality of his own. He let his hair grow down over his ears, wore a gates-ajar collar, a flowing tie, funereal black hat, and dropped cigarette ashes all over himself. Aspiring journalists began copying his curt prose and his garb. Said the Manchester Guardian: "He taught Fleet Street that a gossip column should be written . . . with more candor than charity. He got up on stilts to teach reporters how to get off their knees in the presence of the powerful...
Glum and pessimistic, United Fruit Co. officials in Boston and Guatemala City waited last week to see what Guatemala proposed to pay for 233,973 acres of company land at Tiquisate, expropriated by the land-reforming government. A curt official telegram to Almyr Lake Bump, the U.S.-owned firm's Guatemala manager, finally brought the answer: $594,572, or $2.54 an acre-and that in 25-year, 3% government bonds. The company's unofficial valuation: $11.5 million. "The measure constitutes a heavy blow to the voracious imperialist company," gloated the Communist weekly Octubre. "Practically confiscation," snorted United Fruit...
Directed at a breakneck pace by Co-Author Curt Siodmak, The Magnetic Monster is crisply acted by Richard Carlson and King Donovan, as scientists combating the radioactive threat. But the picture's real stars are technological: Geiger counters, electronic microscopes, cybernetic machines. There are also learned references to isotopes, alpha particles, implosions. Clocks stop and metal objects go slithering around under the influence of the magnetic force. A race against time to kill off the element is accomplished by jet plane. The whole thing is up-to-the-minute and quasi-scientifically hair-raising. Best sequence: a flickering, high...
...best character in The Happy Time is the lovable dissolute, Uncle Louie, played by Curt Klasner. Louie is a lazy, shaggy fat man who drinks wine out of a water cooler. He is hilarious as the stooge in Desmond's description of how to snatch a chorus girl's garter. Perpetually half-drunk, his arm wrapped affectionately around his water cooler, Uncle Louie steals every scene he stumbles into...