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Moscow diplomats circulated another (probably apocryphal) footnote to Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech. As Khrushchev told sobbingly how the peerless leader had actually been a killer, coward and sadist all along, a written question was handed up to him. He read out the note to the assembled Party Congress: "What were you doing when Stalin was alive?" Said Khrushchev: "There is no signature on this note. Will the author please stand up?" No one stood up, so Khrushchev said: "I will count to three. Then let the author rise." He counted to three, but no one stood...
Lord Nugent's assets, according to Elliott: "Autocratic bearing, beautiful speaking voice, wonderful, pure Oxford accent, good-looking." Added Vicki: "Well-built, quick-witted, fine sense of timing." With the deal closed, Elliott relaxed in his hotel room, happy with the thought of peerless plugs for "everything from soap to beer." As the phone kept ringing, he reached for it, murmuring, "I have no time to do anything but brush off peers." But Vicki seemed sorry that the contest was over. "They've all been perfect gentlemen," she sighed...
...Buddy Ebsen has the familiar role of the trusty pal, and Hans Conreid plays a cowardly gambler with synthetic W. C. Fields flourishes. But, all in all, Davy makes his giant-sized legend come as truly alive as that of Mike Fink, the river boatman, or Paul Bunyan, the peerless woodsman of the Northwest...
...Universal-International) pays a Technicolor installment on Hollywood's mountain of debt to the American Indian: after years of getting clobbered, the redskins this time win three battles in a row over the U.S. cavalry. What's more, the embattled Sioux are given Victor Mature as their peerless leader, but sad to say, when silhouetted against the sky in war paint and feathers, Mature looks more like an aggrieved turtle than an eagle of the plains...
...estimated $20 million on its Buffington plant in Gary. Ind., which will be the largest new production unit built in the past 15 years; New York's Lone Star Cement Corp. will spend $14 million. Other companies that are busily expanding: Ideal Cement Co., General Portland Cement Co., Peerless Cement Corp., Medusa Portland Cement Co. and Keystone Portland Cement...