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...shape he exercises in the morning with company underlings in his private office gym, talks over business while being rubbed down. On weekends he fills his home at Mamaroneck, N.Y. with people, treats his guests to movies in his private theater. The shortest private Skouras show on record: two full-length features and eight shorts...
...plans I devised . . . God had contraried all of them; there is nothing to be done but to adore His judgments. . . ." Cardinal of Spain is the first full-length study in English of the brilliant, plebeian, little-known prelate who "changed the whole history of the Mediterranean" and made one of Europe's most sensational poverty-to-power careers. "Had Alberoni been given two worlds like ours to destroy," grumbled Frederick the Great, an authori ty, "he would have asked for a third." Giulio Alberoni was born (1664) in the Grand Duchy of Parma - until then, chiefly famed...
This Lake Country episode was typical of William Hazlitt's embittered, upsy-downsy life. Born Under Saturn is the first full-length biography in 20 years of the saturnine, unhappy man who was one of 19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English Poets, Spirit of the Age). The book is passionately pro-Hazlitt. White-haired, scholarly Catherine MacDonald Maclean (Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years} defends Hazlitt with the slashing vigor of a mother defending a slightly subnormal child...
Fourth offering, planned to start after the others are finished, about 9:30 o'clock, is a full-length clash between veteran Crimson court-men of the V-12 and experienced Army basketballers teamed together by intra-unit workouts...
...Enemy. In Los Angeles, police charged Harvey J. Bomar with being in toxicated, reported that he had severely injured himself in a battle with a full-length mirror...