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Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte, fashionably deadpanned heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town. At the start it was rather picturesque and dashing. (She added an extra dash of the picturesque by screwing up the famed deadpan for photographers.) The groom was a Lithuanian prince* -handsome Igor Troubetzkoy. Trotting about like a jolly uncle who knows how to handle these things was International Playboy Freddie McEvoy, who a lot of people...
Americans and their government do not like to play the fool. If there is any one quality that foreigners notice in Americans most rapidly, it is generosity followed by lingering doubts that the good works are being mocked by a cynical recipient. In the minds of many Americans the poverty of Europe and the self-sufficiency of this country in 1947 do not create a situation where the act of succor would be an unqualified good. On the contrary, the simple act of feeding starving neighbors, a Golden Rule between individuals, becomes a delicate balance of gains and losses when...
...Army regarded it as detrimental to the dignity of a major's rank. Still another casualty was the film's only sure-fire chuckle-which had been placed, with fantastic bad taste, en route to Hiroshima. The laugh: a flyer asks, "Is it true that if you fool around with this stuff long enough, you don't like girls any more?" Says Robert Walker, "I hadn't noticed...
Only slightly disguised by Paramount's brighteyed little idea men, "California" members to fool Western fans for about thirty seconds before it crupts into a Fitzpatrick Travelogue neatly tucked into the same old roasted saddlebag that serves as standard fare in all horse operas...
Even Schrödinger seemed not entirely comfortable with it yet. "I believe I am right," he announced. "I shall look an awful fool if I am wrong...