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...Peter Shaffer, author of Five Finger Exercise (Oct. 9). Eric Portman stars in a British sex comedy called All in Good Time (Nov. 23). And Claudette Colbert and Cyril Ritchard open Sept. 18 in The Irregular Verb to Love, about a sweet London lady who keeps blowing up furrier shops because she loves animals...
Voros was the son of a prosperous. Hungarian, middle-class Jewish family, old enough to have briefly worn a uniform in World War I. An immigrant to the U.S. at 21, he worked in sweatshops as a furrier. He prospered ($100 a week was money in those far-off days), but sympathy for the anti-Horthy movement in Hungary brought him into touch with the Communists who were running it. He seems to have drifted into Communism through loneliness, general muddle, and a real sympathy that made him unhappy when other people had no money for food or rent...
...trial in a Moscow district court, Voskonian and his gang got help of a sort from those they had robbed. Nina Ivanovna and her mother insisted that the stolen bag contained only 100,000 rubles, not 250,000. Furrier Aleksandrov estimated his loss at a mere 45,000 rubles and, at first, even denied owning a diamond watch shown him for identification. What the blackmailed Muscovites feared was revealed in the columns of Moskovskaya Pravda, which stated ominously: "We assume the Anti-Speculation Squad will try to clarify how the victims accumulated such large sums. Speaking plainly, it is hardly...
...Hymie the Mink" (square moniker: Herman Wallman), a Manhattan furrier turned boxing manager, who could not hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of marked cards, Wallman nonetheless professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns...
Eric von Schmidt is somewhat furrier than Miss Baez, and he sings differently, too. He sings old Leadbelly songs, Negro blues stuff, with a slow heavy beat, and effectively repititious chord patterns. His songs are humorous and his guitar technique dazzling (a technique which includes the use of a Hayes-Bickford knife to produce at points an odd sort of tone) and his general savoir-faire entirely compensates for the fact that, like many male folk singers, his voice sounds much like Jack Benny's Rochester...