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Stepping onto the visitors gallery, she shouted: "Boys! Don't cat that infernal stuff. It's poison." The students replied by tossing cigars and cigarettes toward Carrie, but the Kansas hatchet-swinger refused to give up and descended into the fray. She slapped faces, seized cigars and pipes, tried to sell hatches for her crusade, and left only after 2,000 stamping students forced her back onto the electric car for Boston...
While most of Japan's movies are for domestic audiences, the biggest producers, lured by the success of Rashomon and Ugetsu in the U.S., were scrambling last week to release films for the American market. The export pictures are mostly "sword swingers," Oriental versions of the U.S. horse opera, in which Japan's feudal swordsmen are the heroes. Tokyo's Toho (Eastern Treasure) Co. plans to release its $350,000 Seven Samurai, which won a prize at this year's Venice Festival, early in 1955 as "a Japanese western" (33,000 extras, 2,300 horses). Next...
Home-town Decision. Moving in to the attack. Hurley caught the home-town sportswriters off guard. "Cockell," he told them, "could beat Rocky Marciano on the best day Rocky ever knew. Marciano can't box. He's just a big, crude swinger. Who has Marciano beaten anyway...
This week Sam went to have a long, hard look at New Jersey's Baltusrol course, scene of next month's Open Championship. The Open is the one major golf tournament the "Sweet Swinger" has never...
Bromwich, the 35-year-old, two-fisted racquet swinger and former Aussie and Davis Cup star, was down 1-6, 1-6 only to come back for a 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 victory in the last three sets...