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Ayer thinks that "Oxonian's" fuss about fascism is "extremely stupid." All he wants to do, he says, is to distinguish between sentiment and fact; the fascists were forever confusing the two. That sounded all right, in a way-but most Britons didn't like the sound...
...France's scampish old do-it-all of stage & screen, since he was cleared of charges of collaborating with the Nazis. The movie was mildly applauded in Paris, but stirred up an anti-Guitry demonstration in Lyon (TIME, June 7). On its own account, it is worth little fuss of any kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence, irony and disillusionment. This film suffers from an irony of its own: reverence and honest...
...inquiring eye for aboriginal customs. In one tribe he found what must have been the simplest form of courtship and marriage short of caveman seizure. The boy picked his girl, left a goat in front of her father's hut and got his wife. No words spoken, no fuss, no marriage ceremony. And if the bridegroom was too poor to own a goat, a bundle of firewood did the trick...
Things are quite cooperative once you let them in on what all the fuss is about . . . which is why it is a good idea to sit down and have a long talk with the collar button the day you first...
...locker-room sweat. But he has run the 100 yards faster than any man living or dead-in 9.3 seconds (an unofficial world's record). In the chow-line last week, a husky teammate yelled at him: ''Step aside and let us weight-men in. No fuss, now-you're the one man around here I can lick." Patton, grinning, yelled back: "Better be careful, Moose, I gained a pound last week...