Word: idolizers
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...lined cape, with a brilliant plume in his campaign hat, is no mere coincidence. Colonel Mosby lived until 1916. He was a friend of Patton's father, whose own father had died with his Confederate boots on in the Battle of Cedar Creek. Colonel Mosby was the boyhood idol of George Patton, who made up his mind at age seven that he was going to be a U.S. Army officer...
Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, who returned to her native England in 1941, went to court with charges that Hollywood Producer David Selznick was attempting to prevent her appearing in a London stage play with her cinematinee-idol husband, Laurence Olivier. Selznick likened Miss Leigh to an "exotic plant" which must be wisely exposed, said that her seven-year contract with him still had a year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that...
...most outspoken of German radio commentators is Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, who was retired from the Finnish front in 1941 because of illness. Last week Dittmar, finding no glimmer of cheer in the black situation, recalled the glorious career of Frederick II ("Frederick the Great") of Prussia, onetime idol and inspiration of Adolf Hitler. Frederick had fought the Seven Years' War (1756-63) against a formidable coalition-Austria, France, Russia, Sweden. Finally, with some help from England, he wore them all out. For eleven years before 1756, Frederick had built up his army, laid down immense stores of supplies...
...Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price and Edmund Gwenn, and the disciplined, powerful performance of Austrian Rosa Stradner, a screen newcomer, as the nun. But the picture's biggest, toughest role is remarkably handled by 28-year-old Gregory Peck. He combines a bearing and demeanor that a matinee idol might envy (rather suggesting a sandpapered Lincoln) with a dominant naturalness. It is not surprising that he has no theatrical ancestry-his father is a San Diego druggist...
Prince Orizu is so literate that he has no time for the movies or dancing, once missed an appointment because he read himself to the end of the line in a Manhattan bus. His idol is Patrick Henry, one of his favorite words is American philosophy's "pragmatism," and he does not like to be called "chief." Pragmatically, Orizu has not yet decided whether polygamy, which was good enough for his father (at least 170 times a groom), is good enough...