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...Stripped Emperor. Typical of the breed, Steele worked at ten stations before landing at KHJ for $50,000 a year. If, as often happens, the kids stop digging the din, the rock jockeys simply move on to another town. Ed Phillips, for example, wowed them in Birmingham under the alias of Mel Kent, then moved to San Diego and on to Los Angeles as Johnny Mitchell, then to San Francisco as Brother Sebastian Stone. Last week he packed up and headed for Manhattan, where he will remain Sebastian Stone on WOR-FM for $80,000 a year...
...purchasers of the most precise weapons were the ruling elite, and they demanded decoration to suit their status. Emperor Charles V (1500-58), who often donned work clothes to fiddle with gunmaking himself, once paid $33,000 for a matched set of two pistols, a rifle and bird gun. Weapons that took only a few weeks to manufacture were subjected to months, often years, of or namentation, with several craftsmen combining their skills. Two Munich gunmakers, for example, used bone, ivory, chiseled steel and beaten gold to decorate a combined wheel lock and matchlock for Maximilian of Bavaria around...
...that point, this Chinese film becomes suddenly and inscrutably Oriental. Gongs ring! Girls sing! Emperor excited! Girl delighted...
...perfidious painter escapes to the Huns on the other side of the Great Wall. There he shows the Khan a lifelike picture of the girl, persuades him to assemble his army and demand her hand. To save her country, the girl nobly leaves her Emperor, journeys to the Huns and presents herself to the Khan...
Khan glad! Emperor...