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...scriptwriting catches so much of the vitality and fire of rabble-rousing politics, it is a pity that it also uses some too-familiar materials. When a henchman gets out of line, Stark's actions recall a dozen gangster movies: backed by a tiny, shifty-faced gunman, he props his feet on the table, snarls from the side of his mouth and turns his victim into quaking jelly; filled with lead from an assassin's revolver, Stark babbles improbable curtain lines that too carefully-dear up any audience doubt as to his power-mad aims...
Most Hated. For his kind of peace, Laureano was prepared to fight with the government's full power. Even before the convention began, an old Laureano henchman took over the key Interior ministry from a non-political army officer. Two Laureano men assumed governorships, more were ticketed for other crucial states. The Liberals in Congress countered with a law allowing citizens to vote anywhere. This would enable Liberals to vote in other towns if run out of their homes in Conservative-bossed villages...
...year later, Presbrey had to dodge gunfire again to get another beat. He was on his way for a quiet beer just as the cops flushed Dillinger Henchman Homer van Meter, then Public Enemy No. 1, from an apartment hiding place. In trying to escape, Van Meter ran in front of Presbrey's car. Presbrey jammed on the brake and the cops poured 40 slugs into Van Meter. Now, after such narrow escapes, Paul Presbrey is getting a little mystical about his luck. Says he: "Sometimes it scares me. But I couldn't stop going if I wanted...
...Italian bandits. While his satiated father sat back weakly on his throne (some historians think, on the contrary, that Borgia senior was quite handy at murder), son Cesare stormed and conquered numerous fortresses in Italy. Men who got in his way were ruthlessly disposed of by his Spanish henchman, Don Michelotto, or quietly turned over to his bland and terrifying secretary, Agapito, who, in Author Balchin's version, sounds comically like P. G. Wodehouse's inimitable Jeeves, and who removes undesirable Borgia enemies as distastefully as if they were Bertie Wooster's vulgar cravats and checked suits...
Died. Georgi Dimitrov, 67, Premier of Bulgaria and Moscow's No. 1 satellite henchman; of diabetic complications; in a sanitarium near Moscow (see INTERNATIONAL...