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...based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
...John, then a West Point underclassman. "This is a fine command," wrote Ike of the Allied troops he was about to lead into North Africa. ''And, of course, it is every soldier's ambition to get command of something, even if it is only a platoon. I never once dreamed that my first command would be an 'Allied' one and that I would have soldiers, sailors and airmen of two great countries under my control. I must say that it keeps a fellow stepping pretty rapidly to keep on top of the ball...
...Blasingame effortlessly beat Hanford High 5-2, struck out 16 batters. By graduation he had a won-lost record of 26-0, five no-hitters, an average of 15 strike-outs a game, a niggardly 0.45 earned-run average, and eight major league clubs on his tail. While a platoon of scouts watched, wheedled and courted Wade. Dale Blasingame did all the talking for his boy. The talk was blunt, sometimes brutal. "Half a dozen teams were in there with high offers," says he. "Some others frankly confessed they were on budgets, and I just as frankly told them that...
...cent in debt. Day-to-day management of the company is left to lanky Montanan Joseph Wright, 50, who joined Zenith as a lawyer in 1953, became president three years ago. Since Zenith's headquarters and production facilities are all centered in Chicago. Wright and a platoon of bright, aggressive vice presidents are able to keep a close personal watch on every phase of the company's operations. "With each of us knowing what is happening in the other departments," says Wright, "we can meet problems quickly...
...Davis got all set to give his alma mater $3,800,000. A rich New York investment banker, Davis, 52, proposed to endow Old Nassau with two new history chairs in honor of his late father (Princeton '86). But when Donor Davis arrived at the bank with a platoon of lawyers to wrap up the gift for happy Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. his big gesture collapsed. The money was not his to give...