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...much of the film is directed-somewhat surprisingly, considering Wyler's reputation-on the assumption that the perceptive level of the audience is that of a roomful of producers' relatives. Audrey Hepburn, the other teacher, gives her standard, frail, indomitable characterization, which is to say that her eyes water constantly (frailty) and her chin is forever cantilevered forward (indomitability). Little is asked of James (Maverick) Garner, and he gives...
...leader, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's most prestigious elder statesman, attacks Nehru personally. "C.R.," also nicknamed "Rajaji," has stung Nehru by calling the Congress reign "corrupt and dishonest . . . worse than the rule of the Mogul emperor," has accused him of leading India to statism and Communism. A bowed and frail Madras Brahman whom Gandhi once called "keeper of my conscience," C.R. was a leader in the Congress freedom fight against the British, was the only Indian ever to serve as India's Governor General. A leader of the Congress right wing, he quit the party in 1959 when...
Died. Natalia Ivanovna Sedova Trotsky, 79, frail wife of late Revolutionary Leon Trotsky; outside Paris. An active revolutionist by 15, she met Trotsky in Paris in 1902, was jailed with him in Russia after the abortive 1905 revolution, rose to high bureaucratic posts with him (e.g., director of museums) after the 1917 Bolshevik victory, fled with him in 1928, tried vainly to get Nikita Khrushchev to restore him to honor in the Communist constellation...
...leave the members asking, "What does the Christian do or say about this, and how does he help?" These issues, he said, were "the sudden independence of several nations unequipped know-how to run their own affairs;" the East-West conflict and the presence of nuclear weapons; and the frail development of international law organization...
There was still much ado about the nothing worn (above the waist, anyhow) by frail Model Christina Paolozzi, 22, in a full-page Richard Avedon photograph published by Harper's Bazaar in the January issue. The clothes-horsing magazine identified Manhattan-born Christina as a "Contessa" (she insists she is not), proudly admired "the classic spirit, abhorring the demure and falsely modest." But the photo was agitating the female press corps to its foundations. Tartly advised Syndicated Columnist Inez Robb: "The excursion into overexposure has unwittingly proved that not diamonds but clothes are a girl's best friend...