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...Spillane didn't have much more luck with the films made from his novels than Hammer did that afternoon with Charlotte. He sold his movie rights to the English director-producer Victor Saville. "I always thought that Saville would have the sense to do what was right," Spillane told Collins. "He never did." The result was four '50s big-screen adaptations: three cheap little dogs (I, the Jury, The Long Night and My Gun Is Quick) and one large, strange, rabid animal (Kiss Me Deadly...
Trading on South Beach, Miami's precinct of risqué indulgence, Hyatt's historic Hotel Victor on Ocean Drive aims to make its mark as a haven for vintage hedonism. Later this summer, the newly renovated septuagenarian property plans to sell a package of amenities that features Prohibition-era liquor and Cuban cigars dating to 1937 that are available nowhere else in the region, says Carlos Sarmiento, the Victor's general manager. "We wanted to do something that would distinguish us," he says...
...trickled in for days of a female captive in the city, of a soldier with blond hair. "As the situation developed over time, we began to get some indications...that there may be an injured U.S. military member held in this hospital," said U.S. Air Force Major General Victor E. Renuart, Centcom's director of operations. Then, on about March 27 or 28, Mohammed Odeh Rehaief, a lawyer in Nasiriyah, approached some Marines just outside the downtown area and told them of a blond captive inside Saddam Hussein General Hospital...
...statement, University President Lawrence H. Summers said, “This generous gift from William and Victor Fung and the Fung family will enhance the Asia Center by promoting new faculty research and enabling students to experience firsthand countries they have previously known only from books...
Saich said today’s announcement comes after years of “negotiation between faculty priorities and the wishes of the donor” and is one aspect of an on-going effort on the part of Victor Fung to support Harvard. In addition to being a former professor at HBS, Victor Fung has been continuously involved with the University, serving as an adviser to the Asia Center, chairman of HBS’ Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s Council...