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Twentieth Century: In CBS's Gandhi, the scrawny, jug-eared little man in the white loincloth looked as Author John Gunther once saw him: an inscrutable "combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall, and your father." Fuzzy images from old films showed the gentle ascetic all but engulfed by the worshiping, hysterical throngs on the mass pilgrimage to the sea to carry out a plan of passive resistance during the British salt monopoly. There was the shrewd lawyer-diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people...
...novel Philip, he wrote: "When I think how this very line, this very word, which I am writing represents money, I am lost in a respectful astonishment...I am paid sixpence per line. With [these last 67 words] I can buy a loaf, a piece of butter, a jug of milk, a modicum of tea-actually enough to make breakfast for the family." Such digressions helped to conceal the sweat and effort that Thackeray put into his work. "I can see him pointing now with his finger," wrote his daughter Anny, "to two or three little words. Sometimes he would...
...Chief Eugene Smith, in charge at the high school, watched the crowd sharply, began to feel a sense of purpose and organization, noted that "half the troublemakers were from out of town." A girl in a yellow skirt talked to a schoolboy, his books in one hand, a gallon jug with two lively brown mice in the other. "If you want to be chicken," said the girl, "go on in." The boy smiled shamefacedly -and went to school. The Central High School class bell rang at 8:45-and at almost that instant a shriek went up: "Here come...
...classic strategy, and his most outrageous hunches still have a habit of paying off. Last year he fired the touchdown pass that put Minnesota in front of his former alma mater; he scored twice against Illinois, twice more against Michigan to win back the five gallon Little Brown Jug. Last week against Washington he completed four passes and carried the ball himself for only 38 yds., but before the second team took over, his deft ball-handling had engineered four of the six Gopher touchdowns...
...just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'O.K., everybody out. The place is on strike,' and they would all run out and sign up." There was an occasional virulent clash of words. New York's Senator Irving Ives blew up as a jug-eared Manhattan lawyer buzzed the ear of his gum-chewing client, tough Anthony Topazio. Said Ives: "It's high time he learned to talk...