Word: machiavellian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star, Hub Robinson had flown to Scandinavia, tempted Actress Bergman with a reported $100,000, plus ownership of the show in Europe. While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford show): "Hubbell is the Eisenhower...
...then faked a couple of postcards and tried to bribe two 16-year-old mail sorters (with $3,000 each) to slip the doctored cards into the show's regular mail. The kids told the story to the cops, and when two detectives came for the Machiavellian milkman, he tried to take it on the lam. A warning shot fired over his head ricocheted off a building, hit him in the cheek and landed him in the hospital. Said his wife: "I tried to get him to quit, but all he cared about was that show...
...wants to give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive Roman apartment sends him ricocheting from one involved and Machiavellian Italian to another and leaves him on the last page dazed, dazzled and without an apartment but wholly in love with Italy. Author Malamud's deft hand slips occasionally, as in The Lady of the Lake, an oddly unconvincing tale about a Jew who denies his Jewishness...
...mile tax), which pleased the oil companies, the railroads and plain, ordinary car owners; a 5% salary increase for state college and university teachers; slightly bigger corporation taxes, which outraged business but pleased Kansas' growing labor unions. Chuckles old Banker Docking: "This is one of those bankers' Machiavellian ideas. I dreamed up the gas tax-reduction plan all by myself, and later some of my people tried to talk me out of it. I said, 'Nuts to that.' Bureaucrats never think of reducing a tax any more, and this is one I want to reduce...
...Alastair Sim is exactly the thing as the genial assassin. His simultaneously prunelike, condescending, and Machiavellian face and manner weave much distinguished nonsense in and out of the philosophic bomber's career--a career whose explosive beginning has included an overbearing headmaster, an overstuffed businessman, and an oversmug dictator. All were neatly vaporized before the war, during which the bomber quit his activities temporarily because killing dropped from an art to an occupation. When we meet him now, he is back in practice; his prey is Sir Gregory Upshott, an international water-muddier. Sim stalks him intently and wittily, particularly...