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¶ To be definitely second-class makes things pleasanter when traveling abroad. "It is no longer necessary to preserve British prestige. The loud, peremptory tone of command, once obligatory, may be dropped to a cringing mumble." Bravery is never demanded of citizens of second-class powers: "The day is over...
"Shush, Baby." Instead of an ego-massaging entourage of yesmen, the old ham had only his personal valet, Lorenzo Chestnut, by his side. In Chestnut's hands were the familiar Berle off-screen props: a soiled towel for mopping the star, a glass of water, a fistful of Dunhill...
Until he was 27, Walker earned his living mainly by playing professional football, studied art and did commercial work on the side. He was a semipro at 15, a $40-a-week halfback on Goodyear Tire & Rubber's team at 25, later played for the Cleveland Panthers under the...
Died. Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, 66, Broadway and Hollywood playboy, onetime millionaire real estate speculator in cinema chains; of a cerebral blood clot; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A restless, imaginative developer of entertainment properties, Blumenthal made a fistful of millions by selling Cinemagnate William Fox the idea of a theater...
Almost before little Jim learned to walk, father taught him to play ball. Every day after school he made the boy run. slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would...