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...Bros, today does not even remember that he was there. He was miscast (gangster, blue-eyed Arab) in a few pictures and spent most of his time performing at Slapsie Maxie's nightclub. Gleason would drink iced-tea tumblers full of whisky ("No booze, no laughs" was his motto) before going onstage to sing and dance and do improvisations, low comedy, and devastating imitations of more celebrated performers. Retreating to New York, and turned down for service in World War II on physical grounds, Gleason spent several professionally lean years doing club work and bit parts in Broadway shows...
...hide nothing; to try everything.'' This is the motto of Vadim's hero and heroine (Gérard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau), a man and wife who not only tolerate but even energetically promote each other's affaires de corps. And then, afterward-oo la la! What fun it is to lie in bed together and tell what happened. One night the wife has the sulks: her lover of the moment has jilted her for an innocent young girl (Jeanne Valerie) whom he plans to wed. The wife simply must get even. Would the husband mind...
...done, Kennedy praised the 82nd for doing "in peacetime what other men do in war, and that is, live hazardously in defense of their country. This is a division which is all American-and as an American, I am proud of it." In answer, the entire division shouted its motto: "Airborne! Airborne...
...cover his youth. As a Royal Air Force enlisted man, he started a bus service from his base to London that underpriced the R.A.F.'s own buses. When the bus line protested in court, the judge upheld Bloom with a declaration that has since become Bloom's motto: "It's no sin to make a profit...
...exponent of the limited hope he had performed great service, the best measure of which was that the Russians had vowed to destroy him and his office ever since last year when he moved U.N. troops into the chaotic Congo, thus preventing a Moscow-run regime. A favorite motto of his was a quotation from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; one should, he said...