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...complainant against Rugo is patrolman William Story, one of the four officers who helped put Rugo in the patrol wagon when he was arrested during the riot. Story said the student, who was with a date at the time, violently resisted arrest...
...offensive and repugnant. I have witnessed race riots in India when rioting caused considerable public injury, but police action seemed little different. A poor student onlooker last night had the nerve to mumble something about "Soviet police'--the unfortunate individual was last seen being highjacked toward the Paddy wagon as if he were a Brinks robber. Freedom of speech...
...LEGEND surrounding old John Ringling is a hard one to live up to. His ambition and drive helped build the Ringling show up from a family affair with four performers and one wagon to "the greatest show on earth," with 1,200 horses, 2,000 employees, a zoo-car circus train. Ringling's favorite saying was "I've got no use for midgets." He liked big, eye-catching things. He bought thousands of acres of land in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Florida. He built a bank, a hotel and two huge, Italianate palaces in & around Sarasota, speculated...
Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...
...point of quitting her job to marry an American oilman, came under surveillance. In two months her widowed mother's house was searched twelve times by flying squads (and burglarized twice by thieves obviously untroubled by Seguridad patrolling). One day a friend saw a station wagon and a group of small, shabby men with blank expressions and Cuban heels outside Evelyn's house, and spotted them for Seguridad detectives...