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...Town King. Young (42) Mr. Ruskin, no violet for modesty, attributes his success to his sharp, morning-glory wits. He likes to remember that he graduated from eighth grade at the age of ten years and nine months, from high school at 14 ("I would have been a quiz kid"). He became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that...
Kalamazoo could be reasonably sure that young Herbert from Beverly Hills was talking about his opposition and not the tennis-conscious Michigan city or Kalamazoo College's high-class courts. He had played there twice before, capturing...
...certainly Hollywood's No. 1 Man Next Door) and Mildred Natwick as the clairvoyant do their hammy tasks well and from the heart, as befits good craftsmen. The one note of viciously painful reality in the production is the moment when Richard Gaines, as the hero's high-class stepfather, who is visiting the pair's enchanted cottage and not liking it one little bit, indecently opens a tea-sandwich and sniffs...
...crates had been hauled from Monte Cassino, their first hiding place, by trucks of the Hermann Goering Division. Best guess was that the Titians had disappeared into flesh-loving Hermann's gallery of high-class nudes, the Breughel into Linz's Hitler Museum, which specializes in the Flemish masters...
Meanwhile, Washington's Monsignor Michael J. Ready had declared that the priest's trip was "a political burlesque.'' (Father Orlemanski, aggrieved at such "vulgar words," declared it was "not a burlesque but high-class opera.") Nor was Monsignor Ready impressed by Stalin's signature: "What we need from Stalin is his declaration of full religious freedom in Russia, not his signature...