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...cable to New York.* In Manhattan's RCA building, New Yorkers saw General Dwight Eisenhower place a wreath at the base of the Lincoln statue, heard others make brief speeches. But comparing the image with newsphotos of the same event, they found it as blurred as an early Chaplin movie. Proud as television was, it admitted that the Washington-New York hookup would not be in regular use for six months, that a coast-to-coast network was still years away...
...match factory looked misleadingly like a progressive school in New York's Chinatown. It was manned almost entirely by children. Girls and boys of eight, nine and ten pasted or stuffed match boxes with the automatic movements of Charlie Chaplin on the assembly line in Modern Times. They work fast because their pay is based on the incentive system. Maximum earnings are equivalent to ten U.S. dollars monthly...
Charles Spencer Chaplin, 56, proclaimed that he was an expectant father for the fourth time. (He denies fathering Joan Berry's daughter.) The mother: Fourth Wife Oona, 20-year-old daughter of Eugene O'Neill. She bore No. 1 to the silvering comedian in August 1944, awaits No. 2 next March...
...Charlie Chaplin, in the midst of thorny court troubles at home, suddenly got a red, red rose from abroad. Russian and Czech cinemen sent him a telegram expressing "deep respect to you . . . who . . . have always defended the principles of humanism...
Charles Spencer Chaplin lost a plea in Los Angeles Superior Court for a new trial of the case in which he was judged the father of Joan Berry's 20-month-old daughter, Carol...