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...paper's editors had already felt pangs of remorse, printed an apology. Publisher Kurt Neven Dumont even offered to fly to Teheran to apologize personally to the Shah. But it was too late. Iran had vigorously protested to the German Foreign Office, demanding legal action under Article 103 of the German Criminal Code, which forbids slandering foreign heads of state. Prodded by Lübke, the Cologne prosecutor sent four investigators to raid 25-year-old Cartoonist Sattler's apartment, presumably in search of some evidence supporting dark Iranian hints that Sattler's acid pen had been...
...press was predictably caustic about what the Sü'ddeutsche Zeitung aptly felt was "making an elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...
...story unfolds in flashbacks. First, Shirley's mother (Margaret Dumont, that grand battle-axe of Marx Brothers fame) warns her about the high cost of scruples. But having refused to wed Dean Martin because he is a tycoon, Shirley marries Dick Van Dyke, a philosophical hardware merchant who has exactly what she wants - nothing. "Our life together was just like an old silent movie," says Shirley. Which cues in some grainy black-and-white footage -a slapstick idyl with speeded-up action. The idyl jerks to a stop when Van Dyke throws away his Thoreau and proceeds to make...
...anything but a bedraggled stereotype. Belden Hull Daniels, Dartmouth '56, Harvard Law '59, and married to a Wellesley girl, in real life works for the International Division of a Boston bank. He is actually features editor and chief idea man of Forum: the editors-in-cheif Robert C. Dumont and John C. Scully, are former presidents of the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the publication...
...Miss Dumont's bungling--bumpy scales, sloppy arpeggios--in the filler passages might have been dismissed if something like artistry had survived elsewhere. But Miss Dumont has been on four successful European tours, and being out of the country so much, she naturally has not had time to learn about that musical structure called the phrase. Melodies and display passages suffered the same degrading machinations; Miss Dumont banged out the notes with no regard for their form...