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...heart attack put an end to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays's 73 years of fun and fighting. Among his mourners at a Manhattan funeral parlor were Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, champion of evolution and founder of the Euthanasia Society, Gambler Frank Costello and Showman Billy Rose...
...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...
...Suave Showman. A onetime bus mechanic, Fangio is a suave, taciturn showman who learned his racing in Argentina during World War II. By 1948 he was ready to go abroad. A skilled and careful driver, he whipped across the tracks of postwar Europe like a well-controlled whirlwind. Driving an Italian Alfa Romeo, he won a fistful of prizes...
...third season (and first full one) in the major leagues. There are other major leaguers, even centerfielders, who stand above him in the statistics (e.g., Brooklyn's Duke Snider, who is fielding as flawlessly as Mays and is batting .359 to Willie's .331). But with his showman's manner and his in-the-clutch timing, Willie Mays is baseball's sensation of the season. To the scandal of some sentimentalists, he is already being talked of as the equal or even the better of the great Tris Speaker and Joe DiMaggio...
Along with these successes, the legend of "the Abbott touch" could hardly fail to grow, but the showman modestly claims there is no such thing. "I just have a good time in the theater," he says. "I'm not out to make money; I'm out to enjoy myself . . . I'm easily bored, so I try not to bore audiences. I have been accused of speed in my shows, but pace is not a matter of speed. It has to do with cutting material and with variety." The most important intangible in a good production, he says...