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...Public Enemy No. 1 "Pibe Cabeza" (Pin Head) Rogelio Gordillo, had been hanging around La Sorpresa in November and had robbed Father Pereyra Iraola on the road nearby. When Pin Head Gordillo was shot down by police last month, Rancher Pereyra Iraola identified a rosary in Gordillo's pocket...
...means of a pedagogical disembodied Voice, cartoon and scenic lantern slides, motion pictures and dialog between fictional and actual characters, Power grows into a loud and lively indictment of the U. S. power business's many frauds and follies. By taking stock shares out of one pocket and putting them in another, an impersonator of Samuel Insull demonstrates to a boobish consumer how his great Midwest utilities empire was juggled through the corporate mazes of super-holding companies. There is a short blackout which permits Will Rogers to drawl his celebrated mot: "A holding company is where you hand...
When the House of Habsburg fell in 1918, the Vienna choir had to disband. Six years later Father Josef Schnitt, a priest at the Former Imperial Chapel, reorganized it, for two years fed, clothed and educated the boys out of his own pocket. By 1926 Father Schnitt's savings were gone and the Wiener Sängerknaben went on tour...
...successful painting. Harvard University sponsors were surprised some years ago when they arranged an exhibition of Sandy Calder's work, sent a truck to carry the statues to the exhibition hall and found no one at the station but Sculptor Calder with a pair of pliers in his pocket, a roll of wire over his shoulder...
...nobody thought that when Kitty stomped out of Harvard Hall he'd from the shelf the precious Shakspere stol'n and put him in his pocket. After all, Shakspere is the immortal bard who depends not on a single man for his interpretation today-a single man whose little life, as far as his plays go, is decidedly not rounded with a sleep. Could the retirment of one great teacher mean the passing of Shakspere from Harvard College...