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...every moviegoer knows, Gregory Peck and David Niven blew up the guns of Navarone, and Alec Guinness destroyed the bridge on the Kwai. But in this picture, the late Jeff Chandler effaces himself so deftly that his star billing fades, and what is left is a memorable portrait of the late General Frank Merrill, carefully sketched from his long-stemmed apple-bowl pipe all the way in to the heart that survived a thrombosis during the campaign and the spirit that was beyond the reach of disease or the enemy...
Perry G. H. Miller, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American, Literature, will receive an honorary doctor of letters degree from Boston College June 11. Among the eight recipients of B. C. honoraries are Ralph J. Bunche, undersecretary for special political affairs at the U.N., actor Sir Alec Guinness, Pulitzer-prize winning post. Phyllis McGinley, and Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute...
...Alec Guinness, of all people, will reach Cambridge at the proper moment, very possibly to hear his name read out in the Tercentenary Theatre. Le Corbusier and Buckminster Fuller '17 may be there too, the Frenchman to see his building, the Dymaxionist for his 45th Reunion. The composer Elliot Carter '30 ought to have a degree by now; so perhaps should Erich Leinsdorf, the BSO's new conductor...
...When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German nanny at Sellers' place, and she often gets an earful when she answers: "Voss diss?" Now that Alec Guinness has opted for serious roles, Peter Sellers is the best light actor in the English-speaking cinema...
...world's most law-abiding citizens, unabashedly admire the man who can defy the law and make it look like an ass. Alfred George Hinds, or Alfie, as he is universally known, is a pallid, peaceable chap with thick glasses, and the oppressed air of a real-life Alec Guinness. Despite his undis tinguished appearance, he has one of the best-known faces in Britain...