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...Connolly's peculiar blend of pugnaciousness and competitive spirit which ended his Harvard athletic career and turned him into a sports idol at the end of the 19th century...
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia's retired King and present popular idol, once dreamed of going to Hollywood to be a "Cambodian Charlie Chan." Last week, in Cambodia's capital city of Pnompenh (pop. 150,000), the young (32) leader produced, directed and starred in a far more ambitious production, a sort of oriental Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...
...Idol Maker" by Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant...
...sickle will look like the moon under Our Lady's feet and the hammer like the cross from which Christ will forgive His persecutors." ¶Peking Communist magazine, China Youth, admitted to its readers that religious believers offer a special problem to brainwashers. "People can break any idol, but this won't wash the divinity off the brain of religious followers," said the magazine. "This must be done through persuasion and education . . . constant atheistic propaganda...
...trying marriage for the fourth time-split their two-year-old union. The parting left Rita in shock, Dick in tears. To intimates, and to almost any reporter who would listen, Dick confided: "I love Rita. A man is only in love once, and she has been my idol for 18 years." That same night, with Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove packed by all the garish publicity, the bereaved husband fulfilled his engagement there, dedicated Come Rain or Come Shine "to my wife, Rita," feelingly crooned Love Me or Leave Me to thunderous applause...