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Lancaster, now 42, who was an acrobat for five years (for the Kay Brothers Circus, nightclub shows and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus), then bounced through two tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers (The Crimson Pirate, The Flame and the Arrow). He tried directing (The Kentuckian) with indifferent success, plans in future to concentrate on producing, act occasionally. He has great respect for Hecht, "an enormously well-read and literate man, a bright, shrewd...
...reported 200 MIG fighters, 50 jet bombers, 200 tanks, two destroyers, six submarines. Nonetheless, Washington at first took Nasser's word that it was just a commercial transaction with the Czechs, based on considerations of self-defense and the need for bartering away surplus cotton. Turning the other cheek, the U.S. practically embargoed arms shipments to Israel, and even volunteered to help build a $1.3 billion dam at Aswan, offering Nasser a $56 million grant for a starter. The World Bank pledged an additional $200 million loan...
...Secret Service Chief Frank Barry, Sam Rosenman, Dave Noyes, and Irish Tenor Phil Regan. Said Truman: "In five minutes I'm going down and announce for Harriman. I want you fellows to go get this job done. I'm not doing this with my tongue in my cheek. I mean it. I want you fellows to go to work...
...title story, the honeymooners are really duelists. This is their second day on Anacapri, and poor Giacomo has got nowhere. When he asks for a kiss, he gets a peck on the cheek. Simona keeps promising better things, but it is plain that she is somehow frightened or not really in love or both. To make matters worse, she is a Communist, and Giacomo is not at all interested in politics. When they run across one of Simona's party pals, jealousy is added to discontent. That night, when the marriage is consummated, it is as though two well...
...town, where newsmen had been standing by impatiently. The President, he said, had discussed future plans, as well as "politics generally," with Hagerty and, on the telephone, with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. But newsmen could not squeeze a smidgen more from Hagerty. Said he, darting his tongue into his cheek: "I'm merely trying to keep you informed...