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...history's longest (1943-46) and most lurid paternity suits, Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin was declared by a Los Angeles jury to have fathered Carol Ann (type B), daughter of Cinemaspirant Joan Berry (type A), despite evidence by three court-appointed physicians that this was impossible with his type O blood...
...method of punishment would be to allow Pasternak to make the trip, receive the award, and then just refuse the author re-entrance into the Soviet Union. There could be little western indignation to this action, since it is comparable to the United States' treatment of Charlie Chaplin, Hayward observed. But to exile Pasternak would break a tradition established with Trotsky's demise, and more defamation of the Russian world might result from Pasternak's work...
Even more startling is the success of Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which is currently being re-released to convulsed audiences in Europe. Interspersed scenes such as Hitler doing a balloon dance with a globe are obvious ridicule, with very doubtful historic basis. But the story focuses on a sort of polar struggle between the gestapo and "the ghetto," which seems incredibly funny even to Europeans...
Married. Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., 33, cinemactor (High School Confidential); and Starlet Susan Magness, 22; in Winterhaven, Calif...
...cinematic best a shaggy lumpen proletarian helplessly meshed in the woof of modern life, Cinemillionaire Charlie Chaplin off the set could apparently out-guile even a Boston textile tycoon. According to a suit filed last week in Manhattan by a widow of a onetime business pal, Charlie was wont to have his royalties deposited at Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co., then transferred to a Swiss banker, who funneled the funds to a dummy corporation set up by Chaplin in currency-careless Tangier. Result: two years after Chaplin settled in Switzerland-and while the U.S. Government was vainly trying...