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Snickers & Shudders. Today Osborn lives on a Connecticut farm, relaxed and happily at peace with the world until he sits down to draw. Then he spears humanity's Dilberts with the savage drawings that have appeared in such magazines as LIFE, FORTUNE, Look and Holiday. "This," he scrawls in...
Greedy for gold, slaves and ivory, Egypt's "liberator," Mohammed Ali, conquered the Sudan in 1820 and began 60 years of maladministration and slaving. (To this day, the Egyptian gutter name for Sudanese is "Abid," which means the slaves.) In 1882, rotting Egypt burst apart; the British moved into...
Their camp, guarded by medieval-looking sentries carrying tasseled spears, is divided into streets along which sit neat, wooden barracks with thatched roofs, a big theater, an ambitious hospital building for which there is almost no equipment. Each day General Peng runs his troops through stern drills with dummy guns...
Marrying a Radcliffe girl in 1943, McGann left for Peru, where he became a Naval Observer and later in Buenos Aires, an Assistant Naval Attache. His fascination for Latin America did not develop at the University, however, where he majored in modern European history. After his junior year, a classmate...
One of the big third dimensional traps into which author, producer, and director Arch Oboler blundered is the temptation to "throw" things at the audience. Lions leap, spears hurtle, feet kick, and Miss Britton pushes her puckered lips right at the camera. These are gimmicks, and poor ones, since the...