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Being Cary Grant is such a gilded role, in fact, that all sorts of other people think they are Cary Grant, too. The most notable of these is Tony Curtis, who caricatures Grant in everything he does. He dresses like Grant, but with tighter pants; his IRT-and-crumpets accent is an attempt to sound like Grant; and he imitates Grant on the screen (Some Like It Hot}. When Curtis bought a Rolls-Royce, he gutsily made sure he got a better one than Cary...
...historian wants to move further west, he can hear Associate Professors Hoffman and Wahl explain French thought, institutions, and social structure since the Revolution (Sever 36); or he can sit while Oscar Handlin covers American Economic History. But on Monday, both lecture halls almost became condensed versions of the IRT...
...expressive, light brown hands-clenched in anger, or fanned in a kind of ineffable wonder, or carving an emotional tracery under the spotlights-are as familiar in the world's famed theaters and nightclubs and on U.S. TV as his husky voice. Instead of riding the IRT, Belafonte now has his choice of two Mercedes-Benzes; to the subway girl, who was his first wife, he was able to give a $10,000 platinum bracelet as a "divorce present" when their marriage broke up in 1957. Each of the seven albums he has recorded (for RCA Victor) has sold...
...rare access of virtue, Confidential came out last week with the second editorial irt its five-year history. Its aim: to persuade readers that "a determined effort by a segment of the motion picture industry to 'get' this magazine" was responsible for a Los Angeles indictment charging Confidential with criminal libel and three other counts (TIME, June 24). Invoking God, the Stars and Stripes and "the world's largest newsstand sale,"* Scandal-mag Publisher Robert Harrison declaimed: "We believe that the truths we have published have been in the best traditions of American journalism...
...Averell Harriman returned to his father's business: he became chair man of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad, and served in that post until 1946 (without a word being raised about conflicts of interest between the job and his position irt the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations...