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...Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough to heat a city the size of Wilkes-Barre...
...peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...
When a couple of American soldiers (Montgomery Clift, Wendell Corey) pick him up, they have to tame him as if he were a wild animal. Gradually he finds that he can trust them, and begins to learn English-just as nine-year-old Ivan Jandl did to play the part. Watching an officer's wife with her child, the boy begins to realize what a mother is, and what is lacking in his own life. Some of the suspense and coincidence through which the mother and son are finally reunited may seem a little overcalculated, but in postwar Europe...
...wicked magic of world events made Crowley's little orgies look tame. He resented it; he was envious. Said he: "Before Hitler was, I am." But it was no use. He became a fat, olive-skinned man with heavy jowls and mean little eyes which made him look like a stockbroker when the market is bad. He was crushed to hear himself described one day as "a rather harmless old gentleman...
...tremendously gripping five-line story of the three tame bear cubs from the Denver zoo, let loose in the Rockies, that sat up before hunters, begged them for peanuts and were shot by them [TIME, Nov. 3], should not have come under the headline "Americana" but "The World, 20 centuries after Christ." Apparently, killing animals (like killing people) is something as natural today as it had been 10,000 years...