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...After a roast beef dinner, each captain spoke to the gathering following an introduction by his coach. Most of the speeches followed the same "I've got the world's greatest coach" line, causing one captain to remark, "This should have been called coaches' night...
...Electric Chair. Often he walked down the hall to Mamie's room to chat and pace the room for exercise while she breakfasted or lunched. His own meals were hearty ones: steak, prime ribs of beef, roast partridge. Attendants brought his lunch to Mamie's room one day, his breakfast the next. He was allowed to roam about whenever he wanted to on the hospital's eighth floor, permitted out of bed any time except during his two-hour afternoon rest. Pushing its control button i, he received some visitors in "my electric chair," a fancy convalescent...
...effective. He had an ideal backdrop for his speech: Duluth, where Senator Hubert Humphrey's strongly pro-Stevenson Minnesotans cheered him to the echo. Some 900 Democrats slushed through the season's first snow to the National Guard Armory and cheerfully paid $10 a plate for roast beef and 50? for badges saying, "I'm still madly for Adlai." A jazz band played It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (also known as Be Sure It's True When You Say I Love You), and Hubert Humphrey himself introduced Candidate Stevenson as "the very...
...story bears a vague, uncomfortable resemblance to Odets' own, and though no names are named, a lot of famous ears are already tingling. The hero (Jack Palance) is a prominent movie star with a career "out of the storybooks" and a bracing regimen of "health, hard work, rare roast beef and good scripts," but somehow he cannot content himself with life among the movie idles. The trouble is that he once had "idealism"-a quality that seems to have involved, as far as Odets is concerned, being out of a job and bitter about it-but he sold...
...bathtub, bloody at the wheel, phlegmatically stirring his bayonet around inside a Communist. As usual, he makes a more convincing display than most of Hollywood's he-men can. And when Lauren asks him why he killed a Communist soldier, surely only Wayne could get away with that roast-of-beef expression and the puzzled reply: "Seemed like a good idea...