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...film mechanics works successfully. In silent comedy, one of the primary goals was to break down the defensive barriers between the audience and the film-maker by manipulating audience emotions to involve them in the action. Having discovered that audiences laughed at the misfortunes and embarrassments of other people, Mack Sennett, and later Chaplin, revelled in low comedy. Cahiers du Cinema theorizes that Countess breaks the barrier between audience and film-maker through use of two extended bits of low comedy: a brilliantly executed seasickness sequence, and a running gag where Ogden, unable to send Natascha out of the bedroom...
Divorced. By Sandra Dee, 24, perennial Hollywood teen-age twippet (Take Her, She's Mine, That Funny Feeling); Bobby Darin, 30, nightclub singer (Mack the Knife); on grounds of mental cruelty; after six years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...
...Baker captured the two-mile for the Crimson's second record-breaking win of the day. Baker nipped teammate Doug Hardin at the tape and they both shattered the 9:08.8 mark set by Yale's Bobby Mack in 1962. Baker ran 9:05.2 and Hardin...
Died. Earle T. Mack, 77, son of baseball's grand old man, Connie Mack, who after playing and managing in the minors helped his father as assistant manager and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics until 1954 when Connie, at 91, sold the club to Arnold Johnson for Kansas City; of a stroke; in Drexel Hill...
...among others, John Hancock), Damon has made a name as an innovator. In 1934 he introduced the idea of a bank issuing a letter of credit for individual auto buyers. (He recently recalled: "I said to myself, Good God, if I can do this for International Har vester or Mack Truck, why can't I do it for the guy who's going to buy a Chevrolet?") Only last June Damon came out with Bankcardchek, an imaginative new system combining revolving credit, traveler's checks and a checking account. The first to applaud Damon's promotion...