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They are turning back the clock, if not the crowds at the Brattle Theatre this week where Gunga Din, older than some of next year's Advanced Standing students, is making a comeback. This story of the waterboy who made good has passed well into its second decade, and it is a pleasure to report that the excitement and humor which pulled one's ancestors into the theaters have aged less than co-star Cary Grant...
Doctrinal Opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced no-din-zim), a young-looking 53, was the son of a grand chamberlain of the Annamite court. Earnest, dedicated, a devout Roman Catholic, Diem graduated top of his class in Viet Nam's School of Administration, worked his way through the French-run Vietnamese civil service, and was appointed Interior Minister at 32, in one of France's early "Vietnamese nationalist governments." But Diem resigned two months later, decrying French hypocrisy and bumble, vowing to lead an ascetic life in doctrinal opposition to the colonial power...
...pace and din of Guignol's Band are too fast and deafening to hold up to the very end, and the string of fantastic adventures grows increasingly limp and raveled. By then Cèline has, as always, succeeded in hammering his sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader's head. Spit-curled Cascade, lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen...
Politico James Roosevelt, who is trying to win a California congressional nomination above the echoing din of wholesale adultery charges filed by his estranged wife Romelle. finally won a round in their mud-plastered court battle. A Pasadena judge let Roosevelt change his separate maintenance suit to a divorce action, which Romelle, a Roman Catholic, has caustically opposed because "he has no grounds for a divorce except his desire to remarry." The court threw two sops...
...Springs Hotel in Southern California's San Bernardino foothills, but the 55 couples in the dining room said not a word. For meal after meal-at breakfast, lunch and dinner-they ate in silence. Then, at lunch on the third day, the room was suddenly filled with a din of voices. The silence of the retreat was over...