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Three-Legged Stool...
...will probably persist in tearing down this legend for years. These same people will say the picture business is closed up as tight as it ever was. They are sure the studio had Miss Turner under contract before they put her in a sweater and on a soda-fountain stool with a straw in her mouth--to be discovered...
...opened the congress with a short televised speech. He appeared robust and rotund despite his 75 years. The main address was delivered by his chosen successor, Defense Minister Lin Piao (see box). Hunched on a stool, the frail Lin, 61, read a thick manuscript that analyzed the results of the Cultural Revolution and set out the newest orders for the party. After Lin's address, the 1,512 delegates split up into working groups to discuss Lin's report...
...Byzantine as the stock market. Instead, The Brotherhood concentrates on the microcosmic death struggles of a single Mafioso family. Frank Ginetta (Kirk Douglas) is the son of a deceased "soldier" of Murder Inc. days. Like his father, Frank still kills in the same old way, ordering a stool pigeon shot in a New Jersey dump, then stuffing his mouth with a symbolic canary. But Frank's college-educated brother Vince (Alex Cord) has acquired new credit cards of identity. Not for him the violent memories, the long jags on vino, the crude labor racketeering. His work is the more...
...Ernie bummed a ride to Florida and fought for himself. He led the first three leagues he played in, in hitting, but he never quite made it with the Washington Senators. So he had settled in the high minor leagues and now, at 34, he sat on a stool in a hamburger joint in Augusta, Ga., and said the current season with the Charlotte Hornets (Class AA Sally League) was his last because his legs and his eyes were gone...