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...romance, Lon Chaney (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939) took care to spook the audience out of its wits before building up sympathy for the. lovesick, crookbacked bell ringer. But the current Technicolor version (with a French supporting cast, dubbed-in English) introduces Notre Dame's resident troll tenderly stroking a pigeon on one of the cathedral's balustrades, and the film plays hearts-and-gargoyles...
...bedtime story, the three Billy Goats Gruff wanted to cross a bridge to a tempting green pasture, but were stopped by the troll who lurked underneath. Last week Speaker Joe Martin and his congressional captains looked longingly at the pasture labeled excess profits tax extension, where a succulent $800 million in revenues lies waiting. The President had insisted that Congress extend EPT for six months from its July 1 expiration in order to keep up sagging revenues. But extension depended largely on the attitude of the Ways & Means Committee, and guarding the committee was a gruff old troll named...
...Amendment. Old Troll Reed was on guard at the byroads, too. Afraid that the Administration might try hitching a makeshift EPT rider to the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Extension bill, Dan simply bottled up the reciprocal trade bill in his committee. The committee, said Dan, was "too busy" to deal with the bill-until the White House and congressional leaders gave their word that they would permit no such trick amendment. Dan won. "At my request," he announced last week, "I have now received airtight assurances from the White House, from the Senate and House leadership, that they will oppose...
Three of the student policemen handedly broke up a disturbance of 4000 townspeople in Central Square ingenious trio requisitioned a troll at Harvard Square, stretched them out along the floor, and sped down sachusetts Avenue, with bell furiously...
Entitled Same Sita (Lapp Village), the book was a best-seller in Sweden. Skum had a one-man show in Stockholm which sold out the first day. Looking like a squat, genial troll, Skum came down out of the wilderness to see the Big City. Said Skum: "Quite good to have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also...