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...Sunday night television show, told the faithful to go out and buy tickets-it was one of the best shows he and Sylvia had seen in ten years. Cantor, 40, a onetime Broadway pressagent, dropped the right word to the right columnist, reminded people that a ground swell saved Billy Budd...
...blonde, U.S.-born wife Caroline cheerfully agreed to forgo the name, state and dignity of a viscountess. "Titles belong in fairy tales," said she. Tony also had the support of his father, a distinguished colonial administrator and longtime M.P. who had reluctantly accepted his peerage only to help swell Labor's strength in the House of Lords. (The life peerage, which does not pass on to descendants, had not yet been created.) Between them, Tony and his father researched the history of the peerage for the past 700 years...
Something resembling a Stevensonian cult has formed around Bagwell. At Michigan State, some members of Delta Sigma Pi fraternity sold a pint of blood to swell the Bagwell campaign chest. The statewide Bagwell Boosters number 12,000 members, more than Michigan's Citizens for Eisenhower at highest tide. Negroes have formed an Elephant Club for Bagwell. In Wayne County, the strongest Democratic thralldom (67%) north of the Mason-Dixon line, 4,500 Working Women for Bagwell are ringing doorbells, penning postcards, phoning friends to drum up votes. The long-dormant Michigan Federation of Republican Labor, revolving around former A.F.L...
...Vishnu-there is nothing arty in Ray's art. By the same token his actors act, not with the usual bombinations of Oriental drama, but as though the camera had found them alone and simply living; and they live, as few characters in pictures do, real lives that swell to the skin with pain and poetry and sudden mother wit. Actor Chatterjee, as a young man too gifted to be strong, provides an unforgettable object of the Biblical lesson (Luke 16:8): ". . . the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light." And Actress...
...Johnson won his first national championship and became the favorite to win the Olympics that November in Melbourne. Then his battered left knee, in jured in high school football, began to swell. Just before the games Johnson tore a stomach muscle. It was painful even to walk, worse to run. Each jump ripped the muscle more. Johnson's two agonizing days came to a climax in the final event, the 1,500 meters. To finish second behind Milt Campbell and to stave off Kuznetsov, Johnson needed to run the best 1,500 of his career. He did. "Sure...