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...taller in the saddle now, as Hollywood studios seem to have decided that he is just right to play the kind of strong, silent, outdoor roles that once went to Gary Cooper. His next epic is MGM's Where Eagles Dare, in which he co-stars with Richard Burton and plays an officer of the U.S. Rangers (unshaven and slit-eyed, of course) fighting Nazis in the Alps. That film will make him $500,000 or so. After that, he will take home $600,000 from Alan Jay Lerner's western musical, Paint Your Wagon...
...English surgeon Joseph Lister. After entering the Senate in 1938, the eight-term Congressman focused his energies on medical problems. As a member and since 1955 chairman of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee, he helped forge the nation's public health programs, most notably through the Hill-Burton Act, which has provided federal funds for 8,000 hospitals and health clinics. Last week Democrat Hill, 73, announced that he would retire when his current term ends in January 1969. Former Lieutenant Governor James Allen has already announced for the old New Dealer's seat...
Tufts President Burton C. Hallowell made the announcement yesterday. He said that Sheetz will handle fund-raising and alumni activities, as well as public and community relations...
...John Lennon and George Harrison did to give a leg-up to the annual Paris gala for UNICEF. And even the Beatles had competition from such lens lizards as Marlon Bran do, Fernandel, Victor Borge and Ravi Shankar. The main attraction for the photographers was still Liz and Richard Burton, costumed respectively as a molting ostrich and a grandfatherly hippie. So magnetic were the Burtons that the wife of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou surrendered her seat next to them for a few minutes so that Actress Jeanne Moreau could bask there in the reflected glow. Later, with Liz as cheerleader...
...COMEDIANS. Graham Greeneland lies somewhere between Purgatory and Hell, and in this particular film, it is in Haiti, where a skilled cast (including Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness...