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...mantelpiece to urge a slow-moving salesman out of his atrophy. "Cash," says Robbins, "is getting to be passe for rewarding efforts. A lot of people want something they can see-and show off to other people." And then there are those who send trophies instead of poison-pen letters. One Marine officer, eager to express his opinion of a football referee, ordered a "Biggest Bonehead of the Year" trophy, and even supplied the bonehead: a souvenir Japanese skull, which Robbins gold-plated and suitably engraved. Another football referee, who was castigated for an outrageous yardage measurement, received a statuette...
...comfortable knowledge that each purged comrade meant more room for himself as he scrambled toward the top job in Communism's German party. No one cherished leadership more avidly, nor curried favor with the Kremlin more expectantly. When the Hitler-Stalin treaty was signed, Ulbricht dutifully put his pen to work in the pact's support. "Whoever intrigues against the friendship of the German and Soviet people is an enemy of the German people," he wrote in 1940. "Under no circumstances can a breach of the pact be tolerated...
Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania, lived in France, and became a U.S. citizen in 1957. but he had none of these lands in mind when he sat down one day with pen and paper. "I feel good today,'' he wrote. "My mind is clear and quiet, and I choose this day to make my last Will. After all. I am almost 70 years old." He went on to say that "apart from my family, my deep concern is for the Jewish people, saved from Hitler, in Israel." With that, he bequeathed to Israel an artistic bonanza...
...apparently still have trouble producing a decent ballpoint pen. Signing autographed menus for guests, Nikita was handed a Russian pen that failed at the crucial moment. Pulling out his own, Khrushchev said grinning, "Mine writes. It is American. You have to recognize when a thing is well made...
...follows Ruth and, improbably, is able to make his way into the death pen, where she is kept in a harem for the camp guards. He tries to smuggle her out. Reality obtrudes, and the film ends as they are climbing over the fence. It is a variant of the Orpheus legend, and it is not the fault of the lovers, who are acting in their first film and are touching and believable, that the retelling is not wholly a success. But it is too early for tender legends set in such a background. One does not see Orpheus...