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Romance? Aline Griffith, 63, recruited into the OSS while in college and ; sent to Spain as a code clerk, wound up marrying a Spanish grandee to become the Countess of Romanones. Festooned with diamonds and emeralds, she smiled knowingly as she reminisced: "I hate to say it, but war is fun." High times? Eugene Sherman was 19 and en route to a guerrilla base 100 miles from Canton when Yale-trained Psychologist William Morgan, an OSS major, intercepted him. Sherman remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan...
...irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned her there would be roles like this. And movies like this, signaling good intentions at every turn, but never quite achieving them...
CONTRIBUTORS: Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow...
...Griffith also questioned the decision-makingprocess, saying she thought the final decision wasmade in a hurry. "I think it was media-inducedhysteria that cancelled this trip," she said. Ofthe increasing number of groups nationwide thathave cancelled plans for European travel out offears about terrorism, Griffith said, "If oneperson does it, it's stupid. If a million peopledo it, it's fashionable but still stupid...
...going to take a lot of work on thespirit" to produce a different tour, Goodsteinsaid. And Griffith, who will be going, said of theWest Coast trip, "It's like getting into Harvardand being told to go to your state university...