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...Wayne (Rooster Cogburn): "He wasn't as clever as Spence, but a brilliant actor nonetheless, bigger than life in his performance?and often when he didn't have to be." Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter): "He can do anything. A bit cuckoo, but sweet and terribly funny." Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen): "Bogart was like Fonda?proud and happy to be an actor...
...compelling was she as a Catholic nun in The Bells of St. Mary's that for years after, Ingrid Bergman, 66, received letters from mothers whose daughters had chosen convent life after seeing the 1945 film. Opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1943 classic Casablanca, she captured a million men's hearts as the sublime image of bittersweet love. Goodness knows what effect the actress's portrayal of Golda Meir will have on young Israeli women-or old Israeli politicians for that matter. Coaxed out of retirement to play the late Israeli leader in the Operation Prime Time...
October 12, 7:26 p.m.--A junior from Mather House was assaulted in front of Humphrey Hall at the Business School. Three white males pushed him into the bushes, and one threatened him with a hockey stick. The student fled on foot...
...expectation that he would be fired. "Every Prime Minister has to reshuffle from time to time," he said in his resignation broadside. "It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks." Humphrey Atkins, a Thatcher loyalist who has been unable to ease tension in Ulster as Northern Ireland Secretary, was elevated to fill Gilmour's post, while Sir Keith Joseph, the ineffectual Minister of Industry, was moved over to Education...
...DIED. Humphrey Waldock, 77, British president of the United Nations International Court of Justice; of a heart attack; in The Hague. A former Oxford professor and president of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Ceylon-born Waldock presided over the U.N. court's May 1980 decision calling for the release of the U.S. hostages from Iran...