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Charlotte has a seven-year widow's itch for a mate. Humbert obliges, but only because he has a very special itch for her gum-chewing, Coke-swigging daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon). The shock effect of this is dimmed, since the film ducks the duty of specifying Lolita's age and gives the part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence...
...today, Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration in Sanders Theater. The annual literary exercises, open to the public, will follow the election of new members and the march to the theatre, led by the traditional fife and drum. Playwright Lyon Phelps will give the Phi Beta Kappa poem...
Vodka & Violins. In a day and a night in Paris, Salinger had two meetings with Kharlamov (whom he soon began calling Mike)-in the Paris home of Cecil Lyon, minister of information in the U.S. Paris embassy, and in the grey-walled Soviet embassy on Rue de Grenelle. While Salinger puffed on cigars, the pair were served vodka and caviar, discussed press relationships and other communication channels between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Inevitably, the meetings gave rise to rumors that Salinger was negotiating about a Kennedy visit to Russia, but Salinger denied it "on a stack of Bibles...
...taken under the wing of the late Edouard Herriot, mayor of industrial Lyon and afterward Premier of France. Li attended the College de Montargis, 65 miles south of Paris, where he alternated four hours of study a day with four hours' work in the field. Li seemed so immature that his fellow students called him tsao-pao (bundle of straw). He had no particular distaste for work-he was just not very good at it. After Montargis, he briefly held jobs at the Renault and Schneider-Creusot factories...
Died. The Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon, 59, look-alike younger brother of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, a Scottish-descended* investment banker who ran Britain's World War II Political Warfare Mission to the U.S.; of a heart attack; at Birkhall, Scotland...