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King Vinnie. What he hears is that Carl Yastrzemski didn't just hit home runs, but "accomplished the ninth labor of Hercules, bringing a championship to Boston, a city whose previous baseball idol, Ted Williams, resembled that other great Greek, Achilles, who fought a great fight, but spent a lot of the time sulking in his tent." On another show, Broun likened the coach of the Green Bay Packers to "Canute-king, coach and general manager of the Britons, who commanded the waves to stop, but they broke through the lines. Vinnie Lombardi hasn't tried stopping...
...from his ability to create convincing lavishness, but from his amazing sense of detail. Few directors excel him at dressing sets; from, palaces to tents, every human habitation looks as though people had lived there for years. In the temple courtyard, hawkers sell miniatures of the 90-foot high idol within, which the audience hasn't even seen yet. The Philistine decor combines Minoan and Canaanite motifs, an archaeological accuracy that surely means little to the public, but much to DeMille...
...major success of the antibandit drive to date has been the capture of the most celebrated bandit of them all, Graziano Mesina, 26. The darkly handsome Mesina, an idol to many Sardinian women and youth, surrendered without a fight last month when stopped at a police roadblock. But thousands of his cohorts have managed to elude their pursuers and blithely continue to collect their ransoms. Feeding the specter of fear, they have sent their kidnap victims back home with breathless accounts of their cruelty. "They talked in an atmosphere of bestial excitement," reported wealthy Cattleman Giovanni Campus, 32, whose family...
...smack of sin. The group that won the $25 prize as the best oldtime band, the Blue Ridge Boys of Winston-Salem, N.C., learned all of their music "from relatives" and are duly modest about their accomplishments: asked why he though the band had won, Banjoist Paul Idol replied Well, we all started on a tune exactly at the same time, and we stopped exactly at the same time...
...philosophical A Teenager's Romance. When his fortune is good in Travelin' Man or bad in Poor Little Fool, when he's successful in Be Bop or luckless in Stood Up, Rick's archetypal voice reveals no emotion --just the casual sneer of his autobiographical masterpiece, Teenage Idol...