Word: fanged
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...games against such middling opposition as Wyoming, Montana, Utah State. B.Y.U. now belongs to the new Western Athletic Conference, and with only three victories in nine games, it is still the weakling of its league. But this season, the Cougars have grown at least one gleaming fang: a laconic, crewcut tailback named Eldon ("The Phantom") Fortie, whose record on offense is the best in college football...
Political parties: 2. Voters: 75%. Docile tribal society has little comprehension of politics. Autocratic Leon M'Ba, leader of Fang tribe and former Assemblyman, heads government...
Curse of the Werewolf (Hammer; Universal) is a routine, competent British fang opera filmed, as many of the new scare shows are, in a color process that seems peculiarly sensitive to red. The picture contains an inspired scene. As a priest holds a pretty little baby (destined to be a werewolf) over a baptismal font, a fiendish face appears suddenly in the depths of the font and the holy water bubbles to a rolling boil. The scriptwriters have also provided an unwittingly hilarious line. After slaughtering five sheep and draining them of blood, the werewolf, now a fat little...
Died. Mei Lan-fang, 67, China's "Great King of Actors," whose willowy grace and flawless falsetto made him the foremost female impersonator in the all-male Chinese classical drama, won him worldwide applause-his 1930 U.S. tour brought him honorary degrees from two U.S. colleges-and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress...
With his great bull whip, so goes the legend, Columbia Pictures' late President Harry ("The White Fang") Cohn liked to snap out the lenses of his flunkies' sunglasses. That sort of management more or less characterized the feudal days when the major studio bosses-Goldwyn, Mayer, the Warners, Cohn-were almost as well known as their stars. Now that Hollywood is often duller than its pictures, the mighty name symbolizing the new Age of the Independent Producer is roughly as well known as the incumbent ruler of Bhutan...