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Growth of an Empire. The Moody empire was welded together by a soft-talking, hard-dealing man who was regarded by his business associates as a genius, and by his poorly paid employees as a miserly tyrant. For nearly half a century he controlled Galveston. Although he neither smoked, drank nor played cards for money, he did not object if others did. In fact, he allowed Galves ton Island to become the gambling mecca of Texas, and Galveston to become the state's only city with open saloons. Although he owned no gambling hall, he welcomed the tourists that...
Broken Lance (20th Century-Fox) takes the cinemagoer to the Old Southwest, where Cattle Baron Spencer Tracy, a likable old tyrant, has plenty of beef on the range and plenty of stewing at home. For one thing, his three eldest sons (by a first marriage) resent having to work for their tough old man; further, like almost everybody else in the area, they resent Tracy's second wife, a loving, stoical, full-blooded Indian princess (Katy Jurado). and their half-breed brother (Robert Wagner), who is also papa...
...mainspring of the action is a murder. A leader of the opposition to a brutal labor czar is cut down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
...already arrived by stages. Meat has become increasingly plentiful in recent months, and off-ration purchases of good cuts could frequently be made-for a price. Many Socialists predicted that de-rationing would send prices even higher, but at least Britain's housewives were legally free of one tyrant-the local butcher. Last week, after standing in queues outside butchers' doors for more than a decade, the Association of London Housewives got to their feet once more to stage a rally in Trafalgar Square and beef about the butcher...
...them. They are cowards!" A certain amount of hyperbole is doubtless permissible in a manifesto issued on such an emotional occasion; Castillo Armas probably knows quite well that some Communists are cowards and some are nothing of the sort. And while he may regard Fellow Traveler Arbenz as a tyrant or a traitor, he could scarcely consider him a coward. On the contrary, military attaches, diplomats and journalists who have met the Guatemalan President are in striking agreement that the mainspring of his character is dogged, stubborn, self-willed courage. If there is any kind of bravery he lacks...