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...Maria. Acting is partly "a matter of family," explains Max with disarming candor, since "in Germany we Schells are like the Barrymores were in the U.S." Born in Vienna in 1930, Max is the third of four children of Swiss Poet-Playwright Hermann Schell. His mother was an actress. His brother Karl has established a sound acting reputation on the Continent. His younger sister, now called Editha Nordberg. is developing as a European film star. And his older sister, Maria, of course, is the most celebrated Germanic actress since Marlene Dietrich...
...with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when the Nizam of that state tried to prolong its independence, has for years been fighting in Nagaland against hostile Naga forces who desire independence. As Menon put it last week with disarming candor: "We have never abjured violence against any country when it's to our interest...
...agents were checking into Pike County's brand of justice, Brenda's classmates were required to sign no-demonstration pledges to get back in school, and two white out-of-state sympathizers were pulled from their car and beaten on McComb's Summit Street. With surprising candor, two of the county's top lawmen gave the real reason why N.A.A.C.P. Leader Bryant was jailed. "Bryant puts himself in the class of the white people," said Sheriff Clyde Simmons. Said Police Chief Guy: "We're trying to rook him in on the damn thing somewhere...
Died. Charles Erwin Wilson, 71, ex-president of General Motors, who as Dwight Eisenhower's first Secretary of Defense was regularly undone by his unpolitical addiction to utter candor; of a heart attack; at his Norwood, La., plantation (see THE NATION...
...humanity comes when he tries to befriend a fellow teen-ager named Sherman Pew. Sherman is a blue-eyed Negro orphan who was found in a church pew. He is as wary as a porcupine and just about as tactful. In odd moments of disarming color-blind candor, Sherman and Jester are as glowingly close as two lovers...