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...could have retired to the golf course and the bedroom (after having four children with Dixie Lee, he produced a family of three with Grant). Instead he took the role of Frank Elgin - a has-been musical-comedy performer whom drink has crushed into pulp - in George Seaton's film of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Grace Kelly is his wife, ground down by drab devotion. William Holden is the Broadway director who wants to give him a last chance at stardom and self-respect...
...self-confidence so pure that he didn't have to push it in America's face; but here he's playing a man with so little confidence that his face anticipates reproach. He's not the star he was, or the man. "Hey, aren't you Frank Elgin?" someone asks, and he murmurs, "I used to be." It is a brave and delicate consideration of decay, by someone who was finally in his acting prime...
...forth. Round up the cadre to provide a flying wedge. Anyone not on board had better consider himself dead meat as far as the party is concerned. George W. Bush is merely the cover boy in this campaign; the Republican Party bosses are the real candidates. DAN THOMPSON Elgin...
...communist country? Is communism still a threat to the democratic world? To the Asian countries, Taiwan in particular, the answer is yes. The U.S., the leader of the free world, should have second thoughts about the way it treats communist China and democratic Taiwan. CHENG-MIN TSENG Port Elgin...
...Elgin added, however, that a positive note in the meeting was the "close to definite" decision to preserve Hemenway Gym, the athletic facility used most frequently by GSAS students. Hemenway will not be converted into an office building to house the Undergraduate Admissions office...