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Citation: "Son of the spacious American Southwest, whose breadth of vision, adventurous spirit, and free-reined energy have electrified the business world with all the thrill of a western romance...
...Thrill-Killer Nathan Leopold, 48, serving a life term in Joliet, Ill. prison for teaming with Richard Loeb (knifed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936) in the 1924 Chicago murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, learned that the parole board had turned down his bid for freedom after 28 years in stir because he "is not the right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept...
Having worked on the ship, it was quite a thrill to see it in TIME and to read your wonderful account of the first flight, which was correct to the letter...
...Othello. At first he planned to do a fast rewrite of Shakespeare, but a friend asked: "Why paraphrase? Have you got a better line than 'I hate the Moor'?" In stead, Elliott contented himself with cutting Othello from 146 minutes to 46. Instead of the usual thrill music, he used themes from Verdi operas as bridges between the action. As Othello, Elliott effectively portrayed the Moor's high-minded simplicity. Cathy played Desdemona as smoothly and efficiently as she plays her comedy roles in My Friend Irma. The real star of the first show was Richard Widmark...
...same with many businessmen. The 39-year-old boss of a family-owned box factory in Cheshire knows that he could double his business. "That wouldn't thrill me," he says. "I consider myself normally British in that I don't want to get too big . . . We have always been able to sell all we wanted. Where you get people who have been working together for a long time, you just can't break them of their habits. There is a tempo that goes with the business and gets ingrained into...