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...This is an organization in which Republicans and Independents may assert their support for President Johnson without necessarily identifying themselves with the Democratic Party," Walter S. Mack Jr. '65, chairman, explained last night. The Harvard-Radcliffe chapter is affiliated with a New York-based national organization, formed by prominent Republicans and Independents who oppose Sen. Goldwater...
Birth of the Tramp. When he arrived in Los Angeles at 24, Chaplin was a thoroughly experienced veteran of the theater. On his first day at the studio, Mack Sennett took him aside to explain that "the essence of our comedy is a chase." Chaplin knew better, but for months as he worked under and fought with Sennett's directors, his funniest and most inventive efforts kept winding up on the cutting-room floor...
...Turkish enemies he is Satan incarnate; the British press dubbed him Mack the Knife. Western diplomats find him wily and willful, sly and stubborn-the man most likely to fumble the world into war. But in the eyes of the Greeks of Cyprus, His Beatitude Makarios III, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and all Cyprus, is almost a living saint who can do no wrong. Though he is architect and President of the island republic, Makarios is also head of Cyprus' Orthodox Church, and he spends almost as much energy serving God as bedeviling...
...Angeles Composer Mack David says Dolly is his and Herman is a pirate. Dolly, he charges, is really the Sunflower song, which he wrote in 1948, and his publisher is ready to sue Herman for copyright infringement. The beginning of the refrain, "Hello, Dolly, well, hello, Dolly, it's so . . ." is identical, says the publisher, with "She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower." Herman concedes this, but points out that after the first notes "the songs take off in different directions." Whether she's Herman's Dolly or David's Sunflower...
...Senate walked out on him in as crushing a rebuke as any Senator has ever suffered. Later, Humphrey met Byrd by chance in a Senate elevator and remarked ruefully: "I may be a country boy from Minnesota, but I know when I've been run over by a Mack truck...