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...rebel against Stalin, or for Stalin to force Mao into a rebellion, would be a blunder bordering on insanity. Both Mao and Stalin have made big mistakes before, but there is little in their long, successful careers to indicate that they are likely to commit such a whopper...
...kind of fishing, is partly a matter of luck-being at the right place at the right time. One day last week, Commander Duncan Hodgson of the Royal Canadian Navy was at the right place, St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia, at the right time, 1 p.m. He caught a whopper. Moreover, he did it with almost primitive disregard for what U.S. tuna experts consider standard routine...
...months M-G-M had throbbed with preparations for a super-epic Quo Vadis, based on the famed Sienkiewiecz novel about Roman persecution of the early Christians. Filming was to start July 1 in Rome on a $4, 000,000-to-$5,000,000 budget, a whopper for an economy-minded industry. Already shipped from Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing...
...white-haired John Bricker, who is beloved by the real-estate lobby, did not join the Senate's private slumming expedition (see above). He had other fish to fry. As the Senate moved into its fifth day of debate on the bipartisan housing bill, Bricker cooked up a whopper...
...Fighting O'Flynn is a barefaced whopper, unsullied by any hint of realism, but it is told with whopping good spirits...