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...valley of death. The airlift that saved it was his finest hour. While the admiring world watched, the first moments of greatness touched the mayor of Berlin, raising him into the company of those who catch and express the spirit of their time. As Churchill's voice had rung from Britain in the dark days of 1940, so the voice of Ernst Reuter rang out from blockaded Berlin, defying the enemy, rousing the free. "Nothing is going to be conquered here-" he thundered. "This city cannot be conquered- We will defend this old Berlin with our bodies...
...points awarded each particular activity. It is interesting to note that captains of the major sports share the top point award (10) with editors-in-chief of the weekly paper and the yearbook, plus the manager of football. Managers of the other major sports are on the next point rung down along with the editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, The Banter...
...bestseller, the film is laid in an unspecified "cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting that the trial be held...
Beefy, jovial Howard Simpson, 57, is one of the nation's few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department. He started as a clerk with the Central Railroad of New Jersey and hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up to assistant general passenger agent. He joined B. & O. in 1931 and started grooming for the presidency a year ago. Said Simpson: "I plan no changes just for the sake of change...
...usurper, to personify law & order. Belatedly, from a hideout in the mountains, a brave follower of the Shah's, General Fazlollah Zahedi, onetime Senator, proclaimed himself Premier. He had royal decrees from the Shah, he said, dismissing Mossadegh. As recently as a year ago, Teheran would have rung with the news; now it caused no stir...