Word: mann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...young bank clerk, Claude Mann, gets hooked on the game. He goes with his friend to a casino near Paris, where sounds echo off bleak, cold walls that resemble an early-morning subway station. Claude wins the equivalent of six months' salary in 10 minutes. He breaks with his tongue-clicking petit bourgeois father and takes off for the big time at Cannes...
...best members of the cast were those who managed to give themselves up wholeheartedly to their parts. Libby Franck, as Rosita, was the best of all. She pouted and pirouetted, rolled her eyes like a fawn, and was a totally engaging ingenue. James Mann, as Don Christobita, the pot-bellied troll who buys Rosita's hand, also did a good job as a club-swinging bully. He never failed to get a laugh when he stalked onto the stage, though he lost some of the menace by too much shouting...
...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, a courtly Manhattan publisher who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...explained that the "litany" of the last generation in foreign policy can still be heard. He used as proof a speech by Thomas Mann, former Under Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, which alludes to the "implacable conflict" with the Communists and denies the existence of pluralism in the Communist bloc...