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Chief attractions were 1) a bullfight and 2) a comedian. Better of the two was the bullfight, Silk, Blood and Sun, a gory affair starring one female and two male bullfighters, played by a dark beauty, Gloria Marin, a boyish Mexican matinee idol, Jorge Negrete, and stocky Pepe Ortiz, one of Mexico's top-rank toreadors. The film, which hangs on the usual triangle, gives Actress Marin and Actor Negrete little to do but look pretty, an assignment for which Miss Marin is admirably equipped. But the picture has a rough, lusty wit and becomes intensely exciting when Toreador...
Over the Algiers radio came the most surprising and inspiring French voice of all. It was that of big, spirited General Henri Honore Giraud, idol of France, Germany's No. 1 war prisoner and escapist (TIME, May 11). Cried...
...Poon, Harvard's funny magazine is getting funnier and funnier, for its cartoon of the month showed the Ibis, 'Poonsters' idol, being shot out of the sky by one of the magazine's many hot shots...
...expected to benefit by Franklin Roosevelt's tour was California's matinee idol, Governor Culbert L. Olson. He had been seen with the President frequently. But pictures-in-the-papers to prove it were scarce. With party funds low, reports had it that rich Governor Olson had to dig into his own pockets. His Republican opponent, Attorney General Earl Warren, remained a 22-to-1 favorite in the betting...
...firmest beliefs in American thought. People had faith in the Yankees as they had faith in their folk lore: Joe DiMaggio's bat was the modern equivalent of Paul Bunyan's axe, Joe McCarthy in the Stadium was like U. S. Grant was Vicksburg. Now the idol has fallen, and millions have become cynical. If the Yankees can lose, what can you believe...