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...Norma Shearer had seen him lounging, tan and beautiful, at poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel. She decided that he was just the chap to play her late husband, MGMogul Irving Thalberg, in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces. As it turned out, Actor Evans had one face: immobile. He also played Ava Gardner's bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises. It was bad enough that Papa Hemingway did not want him in the film. Neither did Tyrone Power. Or Errol Flynn. Even Mel Ferrer turned thumbs down. "They resented the fact," says Evans with acuity, "that a pants...
...concern that the fire might weaken Israeli rule in the holy city. Last week the man who confessed to setting the mosque ablaze, a 28-year-old Christian named Denis Michael Rohan, was judged insane and committed by an Israeli court to a mental hospital. Rohan, an Australian sheep shearer who was visiting Israel as a tourist, testified that he set the fire to prove that God wanted him to build a temple on the site and then would "set me up as king over Jerusalem and Judea." A state psychiatric board will periodically review Rohan's progress...
...meeting was called by William K. Shearer, 38, a mustachioed, self -described political consultant who headed Wallace's California campaign until they had a falling-out. When the two-day convention broke up, the party treasurer had managed to squeeze out only $75 in contributions. Exclaimed Shearer: "We are on the way to saving America." But about all that was accomplished, in fact, was to elect officers and give the party a title. There may be trouble getting it onto a campaign button. The name: The National Committee of Autonomous State Parties known as the American Independent Party...
...where he can earn a princely $12 per hour denuding sheep, the shearer contributes to the high cost of woolen garments. But the shearer's days of glory may well be numbered...
Armed with electric clippers, an ex -perienced sheep shearer can completely strip the wool from a sheep in three min utes. In Australia, where his specialty is a legendary profession as well as a sheer necessity, a champion shearer soon becomes something of a national hero...