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AMONG the most robust of U.S. politicians is Mississippi's 74-year-old Governor Hugh White, who was stricken with coronary thrombosis in 1938, while serving his first term in office. (He was elected again in 1951.) Eleven weeks later, White went back to work. "I had a special session of the legislature on at the time," White recalls, "and the next year I was out stumping all over the state, trying to get Senator Bilbo's seat in Washington. That was no easy job. I lost the election -but it wasn't because I wasn...
Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was stricken twelve years ago with angina pectoris, a condition less likely to cause permanent heart damage than coronary thrombosis. Weeks now considers himself fully recovered, works a five-day week from...
...wounded survivors, using each other as crutches, hobble away from the stricken field to find sanctuary in an isolated farmhouse, where a mother and daughter dress their wounds. One of the men, Rentaro Mikuni, longs to go back home to the girl he left behind, but he is weak-willed, and the women use him for their own purpose. The other, Toshiro Mifune, is a bullnecked, snarling ruffian who dreams of avenging the lost battle by becoming a great samurai. He soon has a chance when a rabble of bandits raid the farm. Toshiro kills the bandit chief and routs...
Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning exhibits by far the best acting of the evening. In the difficult part of a philosophical waiter who steps out of character to acts as commentator, Arthur Lewis gives a polished and confident performance. He is not at all stricken with the curse of uncertainty common in many amateur actors. Martin Mintz, who portrays a cab driver, shows a similar surety, and also posses a seemingly instinctive sense of comedy and timing. A a somewhat irrational restaurant customer, Peter Hugen is less effective because he is not quite in control of either his voice...
...quiet little (pop. 1,379) town of Whitney, in the rolling hills of central Texas, U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson last week made his first political speech since he was stricken with a heart attack last July. To the 1,510 Texans at a Democratic fund-raising dinner in the Whitney high school gymnasium, the most absorbing word from Johnson was his call for unity and loyalty among Texas Democrats, who switched to Dwight Eisenhower by the thousands in 1952. But another facet of the Senate majority leader's speech alerted politicians in Washington and all over the U.S. Serving...