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When he arrived at London's Waterloo station, accompanied by his ubiquitous mother and a retinue of ten, the welcoming mob was bigger than the one that greeted Charlie Chaplin...
...days, the visiting Russian athletes had a high old time. Every morning they trained for the pre-Olympic track meet at London's White City Stadium. There was steak for breakfast, baskets of fruit, great bowls of yoghurt. There was also time for sightseeing, movies (Cinerama Holiday, Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush) and, best of all, shopping...
...Lloyd Tilghman Binford, 89, crotchety, Crump-backed chairman (1928-56) of the Memphis board of censors, who peered through his pince-nez, peevishly banned films because of: too much sex ("There's a little evil in every one of us"), Negroes in flattering roles, Ingrid Bergman or Charlie Chaplin (he did not approve of their private lives), who retired last January; after long illness; in Memphis...
...Nenni refers to Khrushchev as "K," as though he were a symbolic figure in a Kafka fantasy. "From the revelations of K," says Nenni, "we learn that the guest of the Kremlin appears to have been practically a maniac who, like the figure of the dictator in which Charlie Chaplin portrayed Hitler, 'drew plans on a map of the world.' K cannot contain his laughter at and contempt for Stalin's military genius. Of the historical and military films of Stalin he says that 'they make us sick.' The snag is that on those films...
Party-lining Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 65, left the U.S. in 1952 and wound up in self-exile in Switzerland. Not long after his exit, he began liquidating all his known U.S. assets. Before surrendering his U.S. re-entry permit in 1953, British-Subject Chaplin, a U.S. resident for 42 years, made $2.7 million, according to a tab kept by U.S. revenooers, from dividends and sale of stocks and his movie studio. Last week the income-taxers announced that Millionaire Chaplin owes them about $1.1 million in arrears and interest. This fall a revenooer will journey to Switzerland for an unfriendly...