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Robbins: The Slouch of Time! Behind the news of the century lies mighty, unknown drama. Tonight we bring you the real-life stories behind the headlines-the news as it really is. Time Slouches On! (bugle call) . . . We take you to Washington, where upon the witness stand [at the movie "propaganda" hearings] sits a well-known movie figure, known and loved throughout the world! (voices hubbub...
...Valley Serenade" does have all that and more to boot. Sonja Henie, in addition to her solo winter sports carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag, Sonja falls for pianist-arranger John Payne. He, however, is already somewhat attached to torch singer Lynn Bari. The torcher oozes more sex appeal than the skater, but she's a dub in the snow. So Sonja gets Payne out in the open and love soon finds a way to leave...
...authority of Galen, was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. He was born in Switzerland in 1493. (Last week in Manhattan the New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus' death.) A hotheaded youth, Paracelsus doffed his doctor's biretta for a slouch hat, wandered through Western Europe, treating workmen and peasants. Because he believed in experience rather than in Galen's laws, he was hounded by his fellow doctors. No university would employ him, no printer would publish his books. But his motley disciples followed him from town to town. Once...
...autumn of 1836, tourists at Chamonix, Switzerland, were puzzled by a mysterious group of seven strangers who wore tight-fitting coats, slouch hats, vast cravats. It was next to impossible to tell which were men and which were women. The hotel blotter did not help. One of the strangers was registered simply as Fellowe; musical philosopher; birthplace-Parnassus; traveling from-Doubt to Truth. Others were registered as the Piffoel family; residence-Nature; Coming from-God; Going to-Heaven; Duration of passport-Eternity...
...Candy Colonel," deals with army adventures in the '80s. To his sources for these chapters Author Horgan pays just tribute: "How many novelists and draftsmen and scientists the Army contained in those days!" But if Horgan is adept at recreating action and atmosphere from records, he is no slouch at direct observation. If he can reconstruct the fortunes of a German family from one of the strange, castle-like old mansions to be found here & there in the Southwest, he can also-as he does in the best story of the book-write a penetrating tale of a modern...