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...style and shaping of the whole that gives the film its special authority: Director Losey's use of a bunch of privates as a kind of action chorus to comment on the development of the drama; his staging of a symbolic game of drunken blindman's buff in Hamp's cell before he is executed; the awful detail of Hamp's death, which underscores the movie's ruthless dissection of Britain's caste system...
Even without Archie Roberts, Columbia should have little difficulty clobbering Lafayette. The Lions have 19 returning lettermen and Buff Donelli says this is the most experienced team he's had in years. Columbia still won't be able to win many games in Ivy circles, but Lafayette (a 40-0 victim to Colgate last week) is relying too heavily on sophomores to be much of a danger this early in the season...
...Buff & Pedant. One of the busiest and best is Bruce Catton. Catton published his first Civil War book in 1951, when he was 52, but he has since made up for lost time. This new book, which completes a Civil War-centennial trilogy begun ten years ago, is his tenth on the subject. Together, they have sold 2,449,008 copies in hard cover and an additional 1,189,540 in paperbacks...
Part of Cation's popularity rests, to be sure, on the habits of the Civil War buff, who cannot resist buying everything. The addict knows all there is to know about the Civil War, and impatiently awaits the next title so that he can begin the exhilarating task of exposing the author's−any author's−bad judgment. Catton too is a buff; more buff, perhaps, than pedant. And because he is, he makes an ideal guide...
...rising steadily; New York's Norjac Co. has done so well with its electric bread and plate warmers that it has just introduced a $12.95 electric sweater dryer. Dominion has brought out a manicure set and Osrow a refrigerator defroster. The housewife can also get small appliances to buff floors, mash potatoes, peel carrots, and warm her towels. The greatest successes have been the electric toothbrushes and slicing knives. Like many other of the new appliances, the toothbrush was first dismissed as a gimmick when Olin Mathieson's Squibb Division introduced it in 1960. It has become such...