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...toasting an air force officer at an Aero Club plane christening. The officer responded, "I am Clito Bockel's brother," and knocked the publisher down. Livid with passion, Chateaubriand drew his pistol and, with indifferent aim grazed Bockel's cheek, shot his chief editorial writer in the jaw...
...Walter Winchell: Hard to tell just what's biting this middle-aged ex-chorus boy. False shame of his race . . . may be at the root of it all. Anyhow ... he suffers from a chronic state of wild excitement, venom and perpetual motion of the jaw...
...script allows Miss Bergman to do very little except tensely beg her lover to remember his boyhood. By flexing his jaw muscles and narrowing his eyes, Peck does his best to register the fact that all is not well with him. But despite the drag of the psychoanalytical theme, Director Hitchcock's deft timing and sharp, imaginative camera work raise Spellbound well above the routine of Hollywood thrillers. Again & again he injects excitement into an individual scene with his manipulation of such trivia as a crack of light under a door, a glass of milk, or the sudden wailing...
When Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz appeared in the House recently to receive the plaudits of Congress for his job in the Pacific, Forrestal went along. As the Secretary walked down the aisle the members rose and cheered him. Forrestal set his blue-bristled jaw, looked straight ahead and marched on to his seat. It was a characteristic attitude; it was Nimitz...
...duce, the Führer. Herd responses not being on the rational level, this hero does not appeal by argument. ('I was just realizing how much better it is to reason with these poor wayward fellows,' Plastic Man observes as he drives a left to the jaw.) He builds on the herd's dreams: he hypnotizes. Thus did Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The Superman of the cartoons is true to his sources. He is not another Horatio Alger hero or a Nick Carter; he is a super state type of hero, with definite interest in the ideologies...