Word: manheim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sammy run? The answer to that is the answer to everything. Not just to you, to me, but to the country-maybe to the whole world.") But Director Delbert Mann keeps the pace as brisk as Sammy's own. As the heel-hero's idealistic mentor, Al Manheim, John (Bachelor Father) Forsythe looks and sounds like the soft-hearted friend to man he was meant to be. Barbara Rush is Schulberg's "Vassar smarty-pants" scriptwriter down to the last inflection; Dina Merrill plays the conniving heiress with icy charm. The measure of the production...
...Beer does not let the problems of academic success stunt his vigorous activity in other directions. Now working on a comparison of British political parties, he has just finished a long introduction to a book by Karl Manheim on political sociology...
...bristling arms dump: 1,000 rifle grenades, 1,000 bazooka shells, cases of rifle ammunition, napalm powder for making jellied gasoline, 900 parachute grenades with the chutes removed and napalm inserted. The chief was still staring in surprise when a 1953 Packard drove up, bearing Manhattan Arms Merchant Alfred Manheim...
...Manheim quickly spilled his story. Last summer, he said, he had met a Cuban named Jose Duarte. The Cuban, Manheim went on, placed orders to buy arms for the account of Carlos Prio Socarras, whom Bastista booted out of the Cuban presidency last March. Duarte turned over $15,500 for expenses and a $24,000 letter of credit. Manheim told police that he reported the deal to the U.S. State Department, and was instructed to "play along" until the plot was ripe. Over the months, he bought the surplus U.S. Army materiel and rented the gas station, only a grenade...
...cops arrested Duarte, 35, who identified himself as one of three Cubans robbed last October at Fort Worth of $240,000 which they said Prio had given them to buy arms. Duarte, Manheim and two alleged accomplices were booked for illegal possession of bombs. In Miami, Prio denied any connection with the arms dump or the plot. In Havana, Batista arrested ten retired naval officers for questioning...