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...gained admission to private gambling clubs and forced men with his eyes to play millions of marks into his hands. Made up as Dr. Weltmann in long seraggly hair and beard, he conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women who loved him and abducted those who did not. At the end, in a house surrounded by cops with the Army arriving, he imagined he could outgun them all and escape to impose his will again on other...
...this super-hero Lang created an adventure film whose marvels illustrated a deep and true vision of life. He refused to people Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) with the cardboard Bonds and Flints of today's adventure fantasies. Every character is a complex personality. In one gambling house de Witt, hunting "the Great Unknown," is distracted by the sight of an extraordinary woman, the Countess Tolst. He leaves the card table to walk to the couch on which she reposes. In two minutes Lang gives us her soul. We see no shallow temptress, no abstract sentimental heroine. The countess...
Yardage from Football. In addition to being a defensive end for the Boston Patriots, Melvin Witt, 23, works as a salaried consultant to Boston's Office of Human Rights and heads a small advertising and public relations firm. Erich Barnes, a Cleveland Browns defensive back, readily admits that his Barnes Enterprises, Inc., a public relations firm, has gained considerable yardage from his football background. "You can get in the door if they've heard of you," Barnes says, "and that is half the battle." Once inside, Barnes tells white businessmen that "if they want the black...
...Society was notified that "a towardly lad and apt witt for a scholler" had entered the Indian College. This was John Wampus, a Nipmuc Sagamore, who quit before the year was out and spent the next few years in and out of jail for debt and drunkenness. He later settled down as a roving realtor in Massachusetts, and managed to sell the entire township of Sutton--which...
...habit and familiarity, and partly to perpetuate their established positions. None of the rookies, however, find anybody not friendly. It's just business. Some of the linemen, for example, could not say who their defensive coach was. "We were never introduced, so I just call him 'coach,' says Melvin Witt, a 6-3, 265-pound tackle from Arlington State in Texas...