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Manolis Batouvas is about 50 years old. He is thin almost to the point of emaciation, but his body is hard, and his jet-black eyes, set in a hawklike, bronzed face, burn with the fierceness that is characteristic of all the Cretan guerrillas. Batouvas cannot be more than 5 ft. 6, and he walks like a spraddled duck. His khaki shorts are too big for him, flapping in the mountain winds, and his khaki shirt emerges at several places from his pants. He is nobody's ideal of a hero. In fact, before the Germans invaded Crete, Batouvas...
Deafening Chorus. Besides Surgeon Sanger, now a lieutenant colonel, there is medium-sized, thin Lieut. Colonel Thomas Preston White, who heads the medical staff, Lieut. Colonel George T. Wood, executive officer, Dentist Vaiden Kendrick, Charlotte's ace toothpuller (there was a rush of dental procrastinators to his chair when he announced he was leaving Charlotte). Charlotte also contributed several other doctors, two business managers-Captain Stanton Pickens, who used to work for the Coca-Cola Co. and "Buck" Medearis, manager of a laundry-and many of the nurses. Once when the Evac was stuck on a siding waiting...
...Critic George Jean Nathan, following his own fetishes, urged that "once a girl strips, she should be revealed not in bare anatomy but in a very sheer thin blue dress with a white lace collar...
...Petersen, the "broad type" is less upset by extremes of climate than the slender type because it is better "buffered" and presents a smaller surface to the elements. But because stocky people are less toughened by the world, they crack up more readily after 40, usually die younger than thin people. Douglas, true to form, was a U.S. Senator at 34, dead...
Beauty & the Beast. It was simple enough, from Miss Bergman's point of view. Look at Charles Boyer since he went to the States, tiptoeing his great abilities across roles too thin to support a minimum human intelligence. Look at all the individual talents, as inimitable and irreplaceable as thumbprints, which had been turned into just so many highly decorative zombies. "Hollywood," she told the press, "has a queer way of taking an individual and fitting her into the American mold. I have worked hard to develop my style and I don't want anything to do with...