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...Gaunt, 37-year-old Actor Carradine has played in 175 movies (at a top $3,500 a week) without wanting to play in any. His passion is Shakespeare (to understand the peculiar relationship of Othello and Iago, Carradine at first alternated in both roles); he got his first movie job because Cecil B. De Mille heard him spouting Hamlet as he tramped Hollywood Boulevard looking for work. For his present nationwide venture, Carradine sold his yacht and mortgaged his house. He is his own producer, director and sole owner as well as star. Says he: "That's the only...
Died. Samuel Harden Church, 85, president of the philanthropic Carnegie Institute since 1914, upsetter of diplomatic apple carts; in Pittsburgh. Gaunt, vigorous Church rose from messenger boy to a Pennsylvania Railroad vice-presidency, was an original Institute trustee. By his indictment of Germany two weeks after the outbreak of World War I, Church became known as the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation. In May 1940, acting for fellow pillars-of-Pittsburgh, Church offered $1,000,000 for the delivery to a League of Nations courtroom of "Adolf Hitler . . . alive...
...twelve years since Rockne's death, tall, gaunt-faced Clark Daniel Shaughnessy has indeed proved himself a top-flight coach. Last week he uncovered a second talent: military tactics. In Football in War & Peace (Jacobs Press; $1) he convincingly underscores the remarkable similarity of football strategy to tactics in warfare...
...Gaunt Henry Clay, only man who ever stepped into the Speakership the day he entered Congress, was the first to crack the whip over the House, the first to organize it firmly...
...jukebox generation, but she is British; she would be serious about small things, but she has watched too many big minds grapple with too many big problems. She has grown up to be intelligent without thick lenses, mature without even half trying. She seldom goes to London's gaunt nightclubs, does not smoke, but loves to dance. Her newest, proudest possession: a pair of gold earrings cut like wheat tops and curled along the edge of her ears from top to bottom. She bought them herself...