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...often musty dialogue, ("I've known lots of men, but the only man who ever scared me was Dimitrios,") the movies of this memorable breed remain fresh because the actors play their parts at once wholeheartedly, and with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. Lorre's bulge-eyed gulp in the muzzle of a Luger pointed at him is an exaggeration of all fears of death, and so very ludicrous and excrutiatingly funny. Humor in humorless situations, as Greenstreet waddles at top speed through the Metro to escape a gunman, and then safely aboard a train doffs...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: The Mask of Dimitrios | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...gimcracks and the nation's most complete private collection of books about Congress-including records of all sessions since the first Continental Congress. On hand for the museum-warming was the most complete collection of Texas big shots seen in recent years: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson, and a large glistening gathering of Big Rich. Reminisced Harry Truman: back in 1943, he told Sam he wanted to nominate him for the vice-presidency, got a dirty look. "I thought he was going to hit me. If Sam had done what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...died, and other fateful brief moments in world history. Like the others, he has brought nothing new to his main story, but his detailed preoccupation with dramatic incident has concocted in The Day They Killed the King a captivating capsule of history, one easy to take at a single gulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Man | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...Gulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Bootlegging? By this week, as the series drew to a close, Mathis' exposé was drawing three letters of protest for every letter of praise. Most influential critic of the series was the Rev. Texas Gulp, Baptist minister and peripatetic protagonist of the state's leading prohibitionist society, Dallas' Texas Alcohol Narcotics Education, Inc. Culp said that he would demand space in the Post to present the dry side of the case; critics of the series also insisted that the exposé must have been bootlegged into the paper without being checked by the publisher. Publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bootleg Report | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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