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...hero is a young rascal named Michael Cullen, who lies and steals as a matter of course. Still, he also manages to suggest that these are merely tactics of self-defense in a world ruled by criminals far worse than he. For example: Claud Moggerhanger, a vice lord who employs Michael as his chauffeur, and Jack Leningrad, who recruits Michael to the gold-smuggling ring that he operates from inside his iron lung. Of him Moggerhanger remarks, "I'll smash his lung to pieces and watch him die like a fish on his own floor...
...between the people who are making films and those who are seeing them has narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance as unnatural. There is much less hypocrisy in films today...
...Died. Claud H. Foster, 92, Ohio inventor and philanthropist, who in 1911 patented the first practical automobile shock absorber, netted nearly $10 million selling the device to Detroit's automakers before he sold his company to Otis & Co., investors, for $4,000,000 in 1925, whereupon he retired to a $3,500 bungalow on Lake Erie, emerging in 1952 to host a huge dinner party at which he distributed $3,879,700 to 16 charitable and educational Cleveland organizations because "too many institutions get their money from dead men"; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Bellevue, Ohio...
...Died. Claud Ambrose Cardew, 89, uncle of British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Nyasaland's oldest white settler, a member of the first British expeditionary force to march into Southern Rhodesia (1890); of strangulation, at the hands of an unidentified assailant; in his home in Ncheu, Nyasaland...
...Major Claud MacBeth Moir's quote concerning the Black Watch show: ''Possibly some old regimental officers might turn in their graves [at the jazzed-up regimental routine], but I hope not. I think they would be proud." Well here's an ex-regimental officer who's neither old (33) nor dead nor proud ! When a single battalion can field 100 entertainers, it's time for the "Auld Forty Twa" to turn in its kilts and be issued leotards. Aside from the war of the American Revolution and Suez, this is the most asinine campaign...