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...Fortune (Paramount) is a dreamy description of three restless roustabouts who cut many a lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom they chivalrously...
...genial, moonfaced, pug-nosed, tireless ball-of-fire named Lou Russell Maxon, just turned 28, set up his own advertising agency (Maxon, Inc.) in Detroit. One by one, Adman Maxon bagged such big accounts as General Electric, Heinz "57 varieties," Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Gillette Safety Razor, by last year had a dozen whose total billing (about $9,000,000) was enough to rank Maxon, Inc. in the first flight of U. S. agencies...
...Baldish, pug-faced "Ugly" Barratt has been chief of the R. A. F. in France since last January, when, as a sop to Army chiefs who demanded control of the air arm, the Air Ministry picked him as the best expert on Army cooperation problems. Under him are two commands, Army Cooperation and the Advance Striking Force. One cooperates with the British Expeditionary Force, the other with the French Air Force...
...Singles, aggressive, lefthanded, 22-year-old Jimmy McDaniel and fleet-footed, keen-minded, ay-year-old Reginald Weir put on the best tennis performance that has been seen in Jim Crow tournaments since Negroes first learned to play the game in the 18903. Finalist McDaniel, a pug-nosed, shy Californian, is the Bobby Riggs of Negro tennis. Freshman at Xavier (Negro) University, he has just reached top rank this year. Today his admirers think he can beat Bobby Riggs, but once, when they were both students at Los Angeles high schools, Jimmy was beaten by Bobby...
...Jersey's jug-shaped pug, Antonio Domenico ("Two-Ton Tony") Galento, 29, was invited to take part in the Hobby Lobby program (NBC), which was to be chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. Told that the only remuneration was fame, he waddled away grunting, "If Mrs. Roosevelt gets paid, I want to get paid...