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...Oilman Max Thornburg, onetime administrator of Iran's defunct Seven-Year Plan, who lives part of each year like an air-conditioned Robinson Crusoe on one of the Bahrein Islands, says: "If the Point Four people really want to know how to handle this sort of thing, they should come out here and study Bahrein...
Distant Drums (Warner) is the Technicolored record of a daring exploit by Gary Cooper in the Florida of 1840, clearing the way for General Zachary Taylor's victory in the seven-year Seminole War. Swamp Fighter Cooper is an Army captain who lives among friendly Indians and designs his own uniforms out of buckskin. With a handful of men, he sneaks across Lake Okeechobee and blows up a strategic Spanish fort...
...Hearst's sententious Editor Arthur Brisbane was on his way to interview Henry Ford in Manhattan when he saw a policeman dragging a small, hard-faced U.S. sailor out of the Customs House. The sailor, just released from the Navy after a seven-year hitch, had got in a quarrel with customs men, and was knocking them down right & left until the cop subdued him. Editor Brisbane liked the bantam gamecock's looks, got him released, and took him along to meet the auto magnate. On hearing Brisbane's account of the battle, Ford told 24-year...
...This Is America." The owners know that they have put no yes-man in the seven-year, $65,000-a-year job. Frick's biggest problem as National League president came in 1947 when he got wind of a projected players' strike against the admission of Negro Jackie Robinson into the league. Frick confronted the players with an ultimatum; "If you do this, you are through, and I don't care if it wrecks the league for ten years. You cannot do this because this is America...
Next day, he auditioned for a sound stage full of M-G-M producers and directors. To them, he sounded like pure gold; they gave him a $10,000 bonus to sign a seven-year contract that ties him to the studio only six months each year. That left him free, before making his first picture, to do 90 more concerts from Nova Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen...