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First, Hermione Gingold. As she will tell you herself soon after the show begins, it's pronounced "Hermy-oh-nee." She is a performer with a flamboyant earthy style that takes you by storm. She flounces about like a whirlwind, lifts her skirts slyly, twists her string of pearls, tosses off innuendoes, and grimaces. When she has good material, and luckily that is often, she is howlingly funny. For example, her discussion and demonstration of some obscure comp o s e r's "Grasshopper's Dance" is a genuine delight...
Working nights and weekends, they wrote stockholders, charged the management was "inefficient and decadent " and should be tossed out. To round up proxies Smith flew his secondhand Beechcraft Bonanza plane one-armed around the country (blood poisoning cost him his right arm when a boy). In his whirlwind campaign, Smith spent more than $6,000 -but it paid off. At the stockholders' meeting last October, Smith's group won by 14,000 votes out of the 600,000 cast. Out of the $25,000-a-year presidency went
...Last week LeBlanc and his whirlwind medicine show blew into Hollywood to launch Hadacol there. Opening a 30-day ballyhoo campaign (which included a star-studded $75,000 radio show, featuring Groucho Marx and Judy Garland), the senator announced that he had already taken $1.5 million worth of orders for Hadacol in the movie capital...
...Frankfurt, World Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson over Hans Stretz, onetime German champion, a fifth-round knockout to wind up Robinson's whirlwind victory tour (five wins in five fights) of the Continent...
...handled India's foreign relations, Patel shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together with his many friends among India's industrialists, he worked successfully to modify Nehru's socialist tendencies...