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...Forum officials postulate that he will either claim that all Communism must not be equated with the Russian model and that forms of Communism not based on a police state are theoretically compatible with Christian theology, or else espouse the view that no political system should be required to lean on a theological system...
...Thompson had been writing music for Hollywood musicals for years, and auditioning her own songs. M-G-M Producer Arthur Freed would say: "Kay, you sang that great. You are terrific. Now, who will we get to sing it?" No candy-box beauty, lean, angular Kay Thompson was simply one of the well-paid but subsidiary hirelings that some Hollywoodians call "movie trash." Last week, movie trash had become nightclub treasure...
...Delhi, Earl Louis Mountbatten, lean, well-tailored Governor General of the agonized Dominion of India, received medical attention for a ligament. He wrenched his arm playing polo...
Classroom Coach. Paul Brown believes in giving his "lean and hungry" hirelings brief workouts-never more than two hours at a time. Says he: "If a man learns and studies first, practice doesn't have to be too long. Using the brain saves energy...
Hollywood, which is said to be dickering for the novel, should be able to cast this machine-turned story in roughly five minutes. Gregory Peck would be a natural for the lean, dedicated young atomic scientist. Dorothy McGuire would be the girl who cures him of a wartime neurosis and ultimately wins his love; Walter Huston her fabulously wealthy father with entry into every embassy in Europe; and, possibly, Sidney Greenstreet as a Nazi physicist who swipes a valuable discovery from the scientist...