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Peculiar Jab. Her personality is a mixture of puritanism and passion: the two qualities are powerful partners. Though she sometimes swears like a trooper, she does not like to hear others swear. She sips at a drink occasionally to be sociable, but she is eloquent on the evils of hard liquor. She seldom understands a double-meaning joke, and if she does, she is annoyed. While on location for The African Queen, Director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart would often tease Kate by telling off-color stories or pretending to an excessive thirst for alcohol. Finally Kate told them airily...
Ringleaders Earl Ward and "Crazy" Jack Hyatt. In 1950 Hyatt, with two other prisoners, had seized Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams during an inspection tour at Marquette Prison, knifed a state trooper bodyguard, and attempted to escape, using the governor as a shield. Ward, once an inmate of a mental institution, has a record for kidnaping, robbery, narcotics and armed assault. Said Fox: "Earl Ward is a natural leader. He and the other boys are to be congratulated on the good faith with which they have bargained...
...Virginia state trooper accused Bandleader Cab Calloway, oldtime King of Hi-De-Ho, of driving 65 m.p.h. and then offering a $10 bribe to be permitted to swing along merrily to a nearby racetrack...
According to information that the Radicals have been gathering for months, Perón decided last year, about two months before top army officers vetoed his plan to make his wife Vice President, that he needed some sort of militia or storm-trooper organization. The President himself drew up a confidential "Workers' Defense Plan" to "defend the government in the event of military action against it." Five thousand descamisados of "absolute confidence" were enrolled, divided into "shock troop" detachments, "special mission" units and "reserves...
...film hedges on its six-shooting action and offers only a distant and muddy-colored glimpse. Based on one of Ernest Haycox's cow-country novels, Bugles is nearly as empty of content as surprises. Forrest Tucker rings a few changes on the role of a comedy Irish trooper, arid Director Roy Rowland, by repeated applications of Hollywood oil, almost manages to keep the lumbering plot from creaking too loudly...