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...years, Wintle has been fighting his one-man war against enemies of his choice. He fought the Germans in World War I, lost three fingers of his left hand and his left eye. He fought Pathan tribes men in India, Irishmen in Ireland, his own superior officers wherever they blocked him. He fought slackness in his men, sometimes seemed even to consider death a kind of slackness. Halting at the bed side of a soldier critically ill with a mastoid infection, Wintle snapped: "It is an offense for a dragoon to die in bed. You will get better at once...
Responsible for all the color was Austria's famed Painter Oskar Kokoschka, 69, who agreed to design the show out of friendship for the late great Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, who had asked him to do it. Salzburg honored Artist Kokoschka by staging a simultaneous one-man show of his paintings. The press agreed that he was "the real leading actor" in the new Magic Flute...
...Smear. In the first issue of Confidential, Harrison ran an article buttering up Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell. It paid off. Winchell promptly became a one-man promotion agency for the magazine, fired with new enthusiasm for it every time Confidential ran another article praising him or attacking his enemies. (Harrison obligingly became a contributor to Winchell's Damon Runyon Memorial Fund.) Harrison also found a way to use Confidential articles over and over again in another of his magazines, Whisper ("The Stones Behind the Headlines...
...compete at starting tractors attaching implements, plowing the straightest, fastest furrows. Merely hitching up a plow was once a backbreaking task-the heavy implement had to be lifted by several men, worried into position bolted into place. But on 1955's tractors hydraulic lifts make it a simple, one-man...
Preceded by some of the surliest advance notices ever published in the Hollywood press, an erstwhile TV star, Tennessee's mild-mannered Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, quietly moved into the movie capital last week. Sitting as a one-man Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, Prober Kefauver was looking for answers to a valid question: Do sex and violence in Hollywood's product give U.S. kids bad ideas? He also wanted to know more about dirty movies, commonly shot in hotel rooms on a G-string budget. The linking of the two probes was more than Hollywood...