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...barrel-chested, Odie Seagraves got the gambler's itch when he was barely 15, ran away from his father's farm in Corsicana, Texas to find a way to make the money flow faster. His qualifications, as his daughter later said, consisted only of "a lot of books, a lot of guts and a lot of ambition." Odie became a hotel broker, a man who lurks in hotel lobbies ready to spring out at a passing acquaintance with the magical whisper: "I've got a deal...
...reminded by Stevenson's speeches of the oldtime patent medicine man who used to drive into a town, gather a crowd, and after softening them up with a funny story and a few wisecracks would harangue the crowd with spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir...
...days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious death." His acquaintances said that he grumbled incessantly against President Somoza. His act was patently suicidal, and his motive may well have been an itch for self-glorification...
...Stop (20th Century-Fox) is a rowdy little comedy that makes an engaging showcase for Marilyn Monroe's growing sureness as a comedienne. Based on William Inge's 1955 Broadway hit and skillfully liberated from the theater's confining forms by Adapter George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod, the film explodes with a Fourth of July excitement from the moment Cowboy Don Murray hits Phoenix to compete in his first rodeo...
Desperate Attempt. Marilyn took the failure of her marriage hard. As soon as she was through with The Seven Year Itch, she walked out on her contract, went to New York in "an absolute, desperate attempt," says a friend, "to find out what she was and what she wanted...