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...Liverpool magistrate's court, needed help from three more lawmen to lug the copper-tressed spitfire before the judge. The clerk asked her name. "To your regret and my pride, Sarah Churchill." In the box, Actress Sarah, 44, did nothing to help her cause by snarling ad-lib comments on the testimony, made an unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand: "I thought I was monstrously overcharged." Thinking otherwise, the judge fined her $5.60 for being drunk and disorderly. That afternoon, hiding any signs of a hangover, Sarah gave a stunning performance in the title role with the road...
...long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...
Doggedly the nationalists started all over again, this time on the principle that "if the French come against us with a hammer, we will become mosquitoes." Instead of a single large army, they concentrated on building small, highly trained cadres. As the nucleus of the F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) took shape, Mohammed ben Bella, a former French army noncom with a brilliant World War II combat record, negotiated promises of aid from Egypt. Then at i a.m. of All Saints' Day, 1954, simultaneously across Algeria, 30 F.L.N. bands struck. The Algerian war had begun...
...guerre for World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a half ago when his call-up separated him from his wife, his three children, and a well-paid bank job in Paris. But the massacre of 302 Moslem villagers by the rebel Front de Libération Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed his mind. As the first French officer to arrive at Kasba Mechta after the massacre, Olivier Dubos was so deeply shocked by what he saw that he wrote his family: "I must stick...
Most of the time, Paar is merely a good listener with a knack of asking the right questions. He may be as fast on the ad-lib draw as the next gag-toting desperado, but again and again he lets himself be "topped." He is all the world's straight man. And yet, Paar can hit. A caustic remark, a misconstrued question, a real or fancied attack in or out of the studio can provoke stinging repartee. When Winchell attacked him for a misstatement made by Elsa Maxwell on the show, Paar counterpunched fiercely, guessed-on the air-that...