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Fortunately, Capra, over at Columbia, found in Stewart "the uncommon common man": as a lion tamer of the wild Vanderhof clan in You Can't Take It with You and as Jefferson Smith, patron saint of patriotic lost causes, nurser of noble grudges, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. David O. Selznick saw Stewart as a worthy partner for Carole Lombard in the intelligent soaper Made for Each Other. Somebody at Universal made him the unlikely western hero of Destry Rides Again, opposite an amused Marlene Dietrich. These moguls may have undervalued Stewart as an appealing young actor who wouldn...
...overcome by the 'tragicalness' of it all, tremulously responsive to the world about her, dazzingly tempermental, able to show and give love, yet occasionally a nurser of longtime grudges and maddeningly obstinate: above all, as Helen notes, a romantic lapsing into reverie at the slightest pretext, creating through imagination and fantasy a world more gorgeously hued than the real one, in which good and evil were splendidly arrayed against each other...
...Drink Nurser. When it was his turn to testify, Ed Nixon came on as the eternal, jug-eared kid brother of the family. His face is longer and thinner, but he bears a remarkable resemblance to the President. When he talks-confidently and fluently-his hands even move in the same eager way. A geologist, he now works as a consultant on environmental affairs...
...nurser of secrets, Merrill Lynch used most of a handsome 20-page report to tell Wall Street about its success. Its 29,886 new customers last year pushed M.L.'s total to 70,000 active accounts whose buying & selling amounted to 8% of all New York Stock & Curb Exchange transactions. M.L.'s commission: around $3,500,000. Another $4,000,000 came from commodity and underwriting business. The rest of M.L.'s $8,657,000 gross was interest income...
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