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...luck. In a sprightly opinion, U.S. District Judge Marvin Frankel sympathized with Lamont but dismissed his suit. The state's revenue-raising technique "may not be the most inspired kind of government function," said Frankel, but "the information sold is not vital or intimate. It is, moreover, in the category of 'public records,' available to anyone upon demand." The court really ought not to intrude in this area, he went on, since "there is no invidious discrimination, no problem of a wrong unreachable at the polls, no suggestion of an affliction confined to a relatively helpless minority...
...months before Dday, the U.S. Army decides to send a suicide squad behind enemy lines to blow up a Nazi officers' quarters. Leading the mission is a misfit major (Lee Marvin). His twelve "volunteers" are a random selection of criminals and psychopaths from the camp stockade including a Bible-quoting sex maniac (Telly Savalas), a Negro murderer (Jim Brown) and a small-time hood (John Cassavetes). Discipline to them is as foreign as freedom, and when Marvin tries to shape them up, they try to shake him down. In reply, he shovels on sarcasm and overtrains them until they...
...Marvin eventually wins respect from them and from his superiors, but only after the mission has been accomplished-at a terrible cost. The first of the twelve dies as they parachute into occupied France. The other eleven stay alive long enough to enter the target, a huge château staffed and stuffed with German brass. Abruptly the place begins to chatter with crossfire and exploding grenades. One by one, the dirty dozen get knocked off as they kill most of the officers and blow the building to bits in some of the loudest, bloodiest battle scenes since Darryl Zanuck...
Director Robert Aldrich (Flight of the Phoenix) gets convincingly raw, tough performances in even the smallest roles. Marvin comes off best with his customary abrasive humor, but he is given strong support, especially by Cassavetes and Brown, the retired Cleveland fullback who seems to be running toward a promising new career. Thanks to them, The Dirty Dozen proves that Hollywood does best by World War II when it does it straight...
Other TIME staffers appeared. Marvin Zim, on his way to the U.S. from New Delhi, joined the Sixth Fleet. From New York came World Editor Ed Jamieson and Chief of Correspondents Richard Clurman. When Clurman stepped off the plane at Tel Aviv, one dusty correspondent fresh from the front cracked: "You can really tell the war is over when guys like you start arriving...