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...something of a mouse: his coloring was drab, and he stood scarcely 5 ft. 5 in.-a full head shorter than O'Toole.) In his performance, O'Toole catches the noble seriousness of Lawrence and his cheap theatricality, his godlike arrogance and his gibbering self-doubt; his headlong courage, girlish psychasthenia, Celtic wit, humorless egotism, compulsive chastity, sensuous pleasure in pain. But there is something he does not catch, and that something is an answer to the fundamental enigma of Lawrence, a clue to the essential nature of the beast, a glimpse of the secret spring that made...
When students lash out against undergraduate professionalism, the readiest object of attack is the monolith of Harvard professionalism, the Harvard Student Agencies. HSA is the embodiment of the student business mentality in the College, and in its headlong rush up the ladder of success it has skipped enough rungs and stepped on enough toes to provide ammunition for the most clumsily mounted offensive...
While Oetker's headlong growth is similar to that of the now bankrupt shipbuilder Willy Schlieker (TIME, Aug. 24), Oetker fully expects to avoid Schlieker's errors ("He just lost his nerve''), operates on the principle that "you should have 10% more money available than you think you'll need." He also has a special Oetker recipe for handling financiers. "These bankers are a peculiar group," he explains. "They come over for a surprise visit, hem and haw awhile, take a good look to see if all the pictures are still hanging on the walls...
Fifth & Best. Stolz's headlong career in three-quarter time has yielded, in addition to his operettas, the music for 99 films, eleven ice shows, and more than 2,000 songs. It all began in Graz, where Stolz picked up the rudiments of conducting at the local conservatory. Appointed assistant conductor of the Stadttheater at Brno when he was 23, he promptly grew a beard to 1) make himself look older, 2) confuse his creditors, and 3) camouflage himself from the first of his five wives-to say nothing of the several other girls he was leaving behind. Stolz...
...increasingly hard pressed by competition from state-aided shipyards in other countries. But Schlieker's real problem was that he had built his whole empire on a capital base of only $5,000,000, and instead of laying away adequate cash reserves had plowed all his profits into headlong expansion...