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...more so because he would not pay attention in school but was always doodling. It was such gifted doodling, however, that at 13 the scrawny Michelangelo was put to learn the painter's trade in the workshop of Ghirlandaio. Within a year the master himself was making jealous noises at his prodigious protégé. Lorenzo de Medici, the Florentine dictator, was so impressed with the boy's genius that he adopted him and educated him as one of his own sons...
...much as 29% in the next two years; the original three-year rearmament program would now take up to five years. That announcement, made to Parliament by a less forceful Prime Minister, might well have rocked the nation's confidence. Secure at 78 in his role of jealous guardian of the nation's security, Winston Churchill made the announcement without a question from any member in the House...
...music movie in which the music bogs down in the words. The tedious script has to do with the on-again, off-again romance of a husband & wife musicomedy team (Marge and Gower Champion). When Marge retires to have a baby, she is replaced by sultry Understudy Monica Lewis. Jealous Marge has to take her troubles to a divorce lawyer before the couple is finally, laboriously reunited...
...Paris, paused long enough to explain why she was rushing back to Hollywood and husband George Sanders (who claimed sourly last year that "I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon"). Said Zsa Zsa: "He's so wonderful. George does not trust me-or rather, he is jealous. This is the way husbands should be, but of course he has nothing to worry about. I love only...
Hollywood is morbidly jealous of TV, and TV broods itself into ulcers over the high costs of production-but Film Distributor Nat Sanders feels fine. Last year Sanders waded through a list of titles in the U.S. Office of Alien Property, found two old German pictures that many a moviegoer still remembers fondly: The Last Laugh (1924), with Emil Jannings, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). Sanders made a percentage deal with the Government, added a sound track with music and background noises, and opened his double bill last week in a small Manhattan "art" theater...