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...Jeremiah Chaplin rested on his oars and gazed with tired satisfaction over the Kennebec River valley. He had rowed 20 miles upriver. There, he decided that June day in 1818, was an ideal site for his Maine Literary and Theological Institution...
...voice, crew-cut brown hair, a shy smile and stands 5 ft. 10 in a Brooks Brothers suit. He traces his comic ancestry to Frank Fay (for sharpness and restraint) and Bing Crosby (for relaxation and affability). But his thoughtful, economical comedy style is probably more aptly compared with Chaplin...
Charles Spencer Chaplin had a week to remember. Three years after ex-Protegee Joan Berry had first brought a paternity suit against him, a court of appeals upheld the decision of a lower court and decided that he was indeed the father of her daughter, Carol Ann (now 2½). And the Hearst press gave...
...sprawling territory, twice the size of Texas, which the U.S. acquired from Russia in a forgotten real-estate deal; 2) the site of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley (20,464 feet); 3) home ground of Robert Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush...
From This Day Forward develops unusual warmth, humaneness and honesty. This is sometimes seriously impaired by patronizing and oversentimental sympathy for simple folk. At a working-class dance, for instance, the couples jig almost as fantastically as high-lifers at a society ball in a Chaplin comedy. The falseness is also indicated in lines like Miss Fontaine's dreamy: "All brides are beautiful -because they're young and full of hope and-they feel sorta shining inside...