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...everything from a spark plug to a cereal. He is the entire cast of Tom and Jerry cartoons. He was Captain Swift on TV's Popeye show. During the TV run of the Howdy Doody show, he contributed 50 different characters. For Darryl Zanuck's forthcoming The Longest Day, Swift supplied the sheared-cornflower accents of Dwight David Eisenhower. He is the man who says, "I'm a Newport smoker forever"; who tells viewers to use one dab of Brylcreem, not two; who introduced the Chinese baby who could not eat Jell-O with chopsticks...
...Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy, and Chamonix, France, the famed ski resort. A magnificent feat of engineering, the French and Italian sections of the horizontal hole, begun on opposite sides of Western Europe's tallest mountain, were only two inches...
...came to explaining what World War II was really like, the great battlefield commanders proved no match for novelists and "the day that" documentarians. Compared with the fugacious naturalism of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead or the precise tapestry of Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, the historically important memoirs of Ike or Monty have all the vitality of quartermaster supply reports. One of the war's few Great Captains who can hold his own with the professional writers is Viscount William Slim, commander of Britain's "forgotten" Fourteenth Army in Burma...
Handy Rhyme. When the Senate met again after the weekend, Senator Maurine Neuberger delivered a 4½-hour speech against the bill−by far the longest speech ever vented by a woman member of the U.S. Senate. She thereby sparked a small argument among veteran Senate galleryites about whether she should be called a filibusterer or a filibustress. Near the end of her speech, Maurine noted that when she taught English back in Oregon she used to quote a little rhyme to her pupils as an example of anticlimax: O dear, what shall I do? I've lost...
...something close to rule by decree. "I'm just back from the production beachhead," Zanuck said expansively, "and I'm planning a complete streamlining." With that, he packed his bags for France, where he has been storming the Normandy beach for the past two years making The Longest Day-which has so far cost 20th Century-Fox a tidy $10 million...