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Author Rowse finds it hard to understand why satirists such as Swift and Pope fired some of their nastiest arrows at the glittering Marlboroughs. He bridles at the refusal of most Britons (which persists to this day) to regard the mighty pair with proper awe and admiration. To have boundless ambition, to become fabulous millionaires, to seize the power behind the throne coldly and calculatingly-these, as Rowse sees them, are not only natural characteristics in great men and women, but a small price to pay for national greatness and security. Be that as it may, the Marlboroughs...
...longest and nastiest major U.S. industrial dispute in two decades came to an end last week. From both the 44,000 International Electrical Workers and Westinghouse, who had battled for 156 days, came boasts of triumph. Actually, both had lost. The union dropped its insistence on a one-year contract and gave Westinghouse the five-year agreement it demanded to make itself competitive with General Electric, which has a similar contract. But the union can reopen the contract and strike for wage increases after one year...
Just in case that meanness ever begins to mellow, pro players have coaches such as the Chicago Cardinals' "Jumbo" Joe Stydahar. A mild-mannered, nervous wreck in his spare time, Joe used to be one of the nastiest customers ever to play professional ball. Once, playing tackle for the Chicago Bears, Stydahar walloped an opponent so hard that the man's arm was ripped open. Astonished officials insisted Joe must have bitten his man; they even examined his mouth. It was a waste of time. Joe couldn't have bitten if he wanted to. He had lost...
...Blaik the elder--Earl by name--has rightfully and maturely declined to run out on the fall's nastiest job, that of trying to build, out of the total wreckage of a formerly awesome football machine, a team that will be defeated but not put to shame by a fairly impressive list of opponents...
...Raven," which shares the bill, is a French mystery about a poison-pen campaign that sets a small French village into turmoil. It contains glimpses of some of the nastiest people ever assembled on one movie lot, and that includes the hero, Dr. German, who is played by Pierre Fresnay. The movie's favorite acting device is the pregnant pause, which is woefully overworked. Moviegoers who have seen "The Thirteenth Letter" will find that it is the same movie, scene for scene. They will also find that the American version is just as convincingly acted and considerably easier...