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Carl Hubbell is a ballplayer's ball player; Count Basie is a swing artist's swing artist; bounding Burt Wheeler is a Senator's Senator. Forged in the furnace of Montana politics, in the long fight with Montana's absentee owners, tempered by blows in & out...
Fragile enough is Molnar's fantasy of a swaggering, restless, ill-tempered barker (Burgess Meredith) who loves an inarticulate servant girl (Ingrid Bergman), marries her, beats her, commits a crime for the sake of the child she is bearing him, dies, is tried in Heaven, sent to Hell for...
Charles Wilkes was not the first to find antarctic land-that had been done 20 years earlier by Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a Connecticut sealing captain-but he was the first to make enough landfalls to establish an Antarctic Continent. After the War of 1812, whaling and sealing began to spread...
THE expectation aroused by Mr. Laski's provocative title is more than fulfilled by the first of this interesting group of essays. The gentleman stigmatized is the gentleman who has ruled England for the past two centuries; he is a way of life whose manifestations in politics and international affairs...
Cherub-faced, hot-tempered, earnest Thomas Mitchell likes to describe himself as a man "with two arms, two eyes, two ears and an appetite like anyone else." He is not like anyone else. Cinemacting is only his favorite role. He has also been: 1) a newspaperman; 2) a vaudevillian; 3...