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Five Harvard professors were awarded honorary degrees yesterday by Columbia University President Grayson Kirk...
...high twice on the same old vermouth. Act of Love shows that the third time around can be a distinctly sobering experience. The hero of the picture is a G.I. intended by the script to be just like every other G.I., and played by Kirk Douglas with aggressive averageness. The heroine is the girl of a censor's dreams-a nice-girl prostitute. Trying to be both at once, Actress Dany Robin seems most of the time like nobody at all, but she is one of the most appetizing new French dishes set before U.S. moviegoers in recent years...
...Kirk and Dany meet in Paris toward the end of World War II. Kirk asks her to go to bed with him. She says no. Thereupon Kirk does what the script seems to think any red-blooded American boy would do: he asks her to marry him. After that, they do a lot of touring around Paris while the camera takes travel-poster shots. In the end, Kirk's C.O. refuses to approve his marriage to the girl, and though Kirk fakes a marriage permit, he is picked up by MPs on the way to his wedding. Moviegoers...
There were other books, important by any standard, which never got their real due from the bookstore traffic. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind skillfully defined a political and philosophical tradition whose qualities are often misinterpreted, even by its friends. In Five Gentlemen of Japan, Frank Gibney explained briefly and readably what more formal scholars have failed to explain: the Japanese national character, its breakdown in World War II, and the reasons why free nations can now welcome the Japanese to their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding...
...best-dressed women, inherited a reported $35 million. What Spencer Auguste had not foreseen, however, was that lots of men would find Estelle attractive, thus infringing on Jack's assignment. Only last week, for example, Estelle, 42. got from Germany an urgent cable from husky Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas, 37, who before his screen career had been a wrestler. Kirk, who met Estelle in Europe last summer, begged her not to get engaged to anybody until he returned to the U.S. on Dec. 15. But suddenly Estelle, "too nervous to have a long engagement," crossed up everybody by announcing...