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...American in India, whose great-grandfather was a Louisiana slave-owner, I have proclaimed the Negro issue in the U.S. a dying problem. I am indignant that a mob of Baltimore bigots should make me eat my words and, worse still, drag America's name . . . into the mud before my Indian associates . . . We abroad are the ones who have to answer to the world for such conduct. What possible answer can we give? (THE REV.) B. H. MILLER Poona, India...
...subject, not an object, of world politics. The strength of this feeling is the real measure of Mendes-France's political realism, which was demonstrated yet again by last Tuesday's vote of confidence in the Assembly. The politicians and the parties would have liked to drag him down. They dared not do so. We welcome this French revival...
...business where money talks, Brando is now being hailed as "a real drag-'em-in big-tenner like nobody since Clark Gable." And his pictures have won loud, critical huzzahs as well as some stentorian box-office grosses. Last week Brando completed a seventh, Désirée, a film version of Annemarie Selinko's 1953 bestselling novel, in which he plays Napoleon. Twentieth Century-Fox boldly predicts that it may take in up to $10 million. "Two more like Brando," said one producer, "and television can crawl back in the tube...
...airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down in an inhuman tug-of-war between the octopus, which tried to drag him down, and Burford, who tried to haul him up. Finally, at the risk of splitting Evans in two, Burford started the boat to pull Evans loose. Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop the [diver's] helmet, all eight tentacles...
...cast is less able, below the generally high standard, and lacking the extenuation of playing tough parts. However, only Theodore von Kamecke, III, who is asked to play a man considerably older than his own age, with just some talcum in his hair for support, seems actually to drag...