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...hankering to live out his days peaceably with his estranged wife and son. He rides into a town behind the frontier to find them. To avoid trouble, he coops himself up in a saloon on a quiet morning while the friendly sheriff (Millard Mitchell), an ex-crony, goes to fetch his wife (Helen Westcott). As Peck waits, trouble seeks him out: a fanatic is gunning for him to avenge a murder he never committed; three brothers of his latest victim are moving in for their own revenge; a cocky young loafer is itching to win glory by beating...
...Eiffel Tower or the Grand-Guignol. His ideas, his loves and his wisecracks are as faithfully reported as the goings-on of any movie star. In the rest of the world he is almost as well known. His pictures hang in the world's most famed museums, and fetch prices as high as $50,000. Almost anywhere the mere mention of his name is enough to start a boiling controversy...
Only three months ago, a U.S. dollar would fetch 530 French francs on the black market. Last week, the going rate was down to 330, about the same as the official exchange rate offered to tourists at any bank or hotel. This remarkable strengthening of the French franc was another indication that France's economy, fortified by ERP, was healthier than it had been at any time since...
...mayor came back with the familiar questions & answers of the cornered politician. Where, he wanted to know, had all these good people been when he tried to talk up legislation for slum clearance? If they were looking for slot machines, he could fetch them out of practically every self-respecting lodge hall in town as well as in the joints. Cried Mayor Swartz: "Sometimes the truth hurts...
...night before his death in 1799, George Washington sent one of his slaves from Mount Vernon to fetch the latest copy of his favorite daily newspaper-the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette. When he died, the Gazette ran black, reversed-ruled borders on its columns and a poem which began: "What means the solemn dirge that strikes my ear?" "Light Horse Harry" Lee subscribed to the Gazette; his son Robert E. Lee, was reared on it, and Henry Clay wrote...