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...always portrayed U.S. dreams-and thus, indirectly, realities. Just as the peasant tales retold by the Grimm brothers spoke of common maidens who could spin gold from straw, Hollywood created its own folk stories from the yearnings of 1930s audiences. If I Had a Million, for example, tells of a quirky financier who sends million-dollar checks to strangers. A colorless clerk played by Charles Laughton receives his check in the mail, goes to the president of his company, sticks out his tongue and delivers a loud Bronx cheer. Blackout. In those precarious years, the vicarious thrill of giving...
Duncan, a onetime merchant seaman who narrowly lost to Republican Senator Mark Hatfield in 1966, vowed early "not to descend to personalities." As Morse gained ground, however, Duncan bitterly suggested that the Senator might be waging "the first million-dollar campaign in Oregon's history." A strong supporter of the President's war policies, Duncan was robbed of his chief issue against Morse when the Paris talks started...
...excited about the idea of one of our prelates halting his building programs in order to use the funds to alleviate the immediate problems of the poor. For too long the ludicrous situation has existed where the poor have trudged from country hovels and slum cellars to worship in million-dollar edifices of stone, marble and gold leaf...
...scene reminiscent of prizefighting's happier days, of Dempsey and the Million-Dollar Gate, when the Sweet Science was still sweet and Fight Night had the glamour and excitement of a Broadway opening. At Manhattan's new $43 million Madison Square Garden, tuxedoed gents and long-gowned ladies crowded into the $100 ringside seats, and a total of 18,096 fans paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile...
...legend. Folkniks trembled at rumors. Was he dead, dying, mindless, voiceless? To one of the few reporters who breached his fortress, Dylan laughingly replied: "They're all true." Meanwhile, Dylan in absentia loomed larger than Dylan in the flesh; last year four of his LP albums broke the million-dollar sales mark, something none had done previously...