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Hollywood movies are all too often sitting ducks for sharpshooting critics, and one who delights in picking them off is the New York Herald Tribune's Judith Crist. The movie companies ought to be used to such sporadic bursts of fire by now, but once more they are indulging in their favorite form of retaliation: they are lifting their advertising from the offending newspaper...
...veteran of 20 years as a Trib reporter, Mrs. Crist (rhymes with hissed) began her career as a film critic two years ago. In an early review, she blasted a much ballyhooed movie, Spencer's Mountain, then showing at New York's largest movie house, Radio City Music Hall. The movie's producer, Warner Bros., promptly canceled all advertising in the Trib, while the Music Hall reduced its linage. The Trib answered with an editorial denouncing the "inane" pressure tactics. "A newspaper whose comments and critiques can be controlled by advertisers," said the Trib, "cheats its readers...
Mucked Down, Padded Out. Mrs. Crist is not only honest; she is blunt. She wrote of Where Love Has Gone: "A trashy dose of sex-and-soap . . . being palmed off on us on the premise that we go to the movies to see smuttied-up, padded-out, mucked-down television serials in Technicolor and Techniscope." Of Anne Bancroft's performance in The Pumpkin Eater, she said: "She seems a cowlike creature with no aspirations or intellect above her pelvis...
From his command post at San Isidro, Wessin y Wessin announced operación libre to liberate the city. The army garrison at San Cristóbal rallied to his side; the navy joined in, lobbed 3-in. shells at the palace. Air force planes made repeated strafing runs. Then across the river rumbled the tanks, firing almost point-blank into rebel Ciudad Nueva...
Born. To María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 37, only child of Spain's Generalissimo Franco; and Cristóbal Martínez Bordiu Ortega y Bascarán, 41, Marqués de Villaverde: their seventh child, fifth daughter; in Madrid...