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...later, Bad Boy Brando, still something of a showoff, has pulled the trick again. But this time his wall is a hundred thousand movie screens, his performance is distinctly more artistic, and his audience is the popeyed world. Six pictures in four years-The Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Julius Caesar, The Wild One, On the Waterfront-have branded the Brando name and face blue-hot on the public mind...
...slashing denunciation of Hollywood (his last: in a chapter of his biography A Child of the Century-TIME, June 21). This time Hecht replied to critics who say that he is biting the hands that fed him. Said he: "I got $12,000 from M-G-M for writing Viva Villa, and all the studio made on the picture was $2,000,000 net. I was paid $19,000 by RKO for writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights...
...lose the labor vote for his candidate in next October's presidential election. Last week, therefore, he privately asked United Fruit to negotiate even before the strikers go back to work, and to start talking turkey on higher wages, paid vacations, double overtime pay. The company agreed. "Viva Gálvez!" cried the strikers...
...fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions. As the Premier stood on a balcony to address his old neighbors, a blaze of electric lights spelled out the message: "Viva Scelba...
...Peter's great bell, Pope Pius XII, after 57 days of confinement with a stomach ailment, appeared at the window of his Vatican apartment, smiled and made gestures of blessing to some 50,000 faithful. The crowd cheered and, as the square echoed to cries of "Viva il Papa!", knelt to receive his benediction...