Word: greatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ferdinand (The Great Impostor) Demara blew into Hollywood three weeks ago for his first movie, The Hypnotic Eye, Producer Charles Bloch and Allied Artists' Pressagent Ted Bonnet were at the airport to meet his plane. One by one, the passengers filed down the ramp-but no Demara. The stewardess said that Ferdinand had indeed been on the New York-Hollywood flight, but he seemed to have disappeared. Just as Producer Bloch turned to walk away, a bulky man dressed like a pilot tapped him on the shoulder: "You looking for a guy named Demara?" "Yes," replied Bloch...
...Demara plays a doctor, plus eight bit parts-he decided that Hollywood was not for him. "The technical adviser hates me. And they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal International plans to produce from the bestseller about his life, Demara complained that he got only $4,000 ("I've been had"), and that Tony Curtis was completely miscast in the hero's role. Hollywood, which has always instinctively taken impostors...
...variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety has been spread across Asia by migrating herons, sometimes affects thousands in a summer. Some 2,800 died in Japan and Korea last year; another epidemic this summer has killed 500 in Korea alone...
...Other games: Starting a drive for a national championship, the mighty Iowa Hawkeyes spotted California an early touchdown, then came back to win 42-12. Beefy Ohio State had to struggle mightily to edge upstart Duke, 14-13. Once-great Michigan State, still reeling from last season's debacle (three wins, five defeats), got off on the wrong foot by losing 9-7 to Texas A. & M. Outweighed 20 Ibs. a man, stubborn Tennessee upset Auburn, 3-0, to snap major college football's longest unbeaten string at 24 games...
...spacious home in Norman, Okla. and swirled a glass of brandy. "There are no more hicks in America," said Savoie Lottinville, 52, head of the University of Oklahoma Press. "The cultural face of the continent has changed from concentration in New York and San Francisco. A great lot of the best ideas come from localities far removed from those great cities...