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...always gregarious, he is Tom to most of his workers. Some years ago he moonlighted as mayor of Weirton, W. Va., defeating a former union organizer by a 5-to-l margin. "That was a helluva job," he grins. "All things considered, I'd rather build an eight-inch cold-strip mill...
Wirtz turned to civil rights to prove his point. He said "more ground was gained last year than in the previous 100 years" in recognizing the Negro's rights, but that "every inch of it will be lost" if we do not face up to the responsibility of providing jobs for Negroes...
...took on Grable's gams, then insured Marlene Dietrich from toe to thigh. Now Angle Dickinson, 32, Captain Newman M.D.'s favorite nurse, has got a policy on her props. Her studio thinks they're worth $1,000,000, or about $15,000 per well-turned inch. Nice round figure...
...were soon recording an insider's view. Watching Swiss Director Bernhard Wicki at work in Rome on The Visit is like watching a big, half-mad sheep dog forever nipping at the flock, loping in circles, barking "Go home!" at people in his way. Ingrid Bergman is every inch an actress as she sits in a makeup chair and tells the man with the eye shadow how some magazine is obviously out to sink a knife into actresses one and all. Duke Wayne, in Spain with the Circus World, fluffs a line as if he were breaking a thick...
...story is so naively contrived that the audience at times must swallow it out of simple generosity. Mifune-appearing 15 years trimmer and every muscular inch a star-plays an idealistic rookie detective whose confidence is shaken when a pickpocket steals his .38 Colt on a crowded bus. He plunges into the Tokyo underworld to find it; and in a long sequence without a word of dialogue interrupting the flow of images, Kurosawa pulls the viewer right in after him. Mifune joins forces with a wise old sleuth (Takashi Shimura), and the two men track a killer through a series...