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Tomorrow the Brattle officially celebrates its fourth anniversary with a film which in many ways exemplifies the attitude of the Brattle management: "The Childhood of Maxim Gorky," a Russian film made in the late '30's and never shown in New England before, and furthermore a film the Brattle considers one of the three or four greatest movies ever made, but which they dolefully expect will do very poor business...
...with all its problems, the Brattle has no intention of closing its doors, and is now busily booking its spring season. They will celebrate their fourth birthday quietly tomorrow with a private showing of "The Childhood of Maxim Gorky" for a few friends of the theatre, and hope that the mysterious force "The Public" may surprise them and like the film
...Pentagon Maxim...
...That old maxim-masher, Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, tangled with the National Guard last week. He was telling the House Armed Services Committee about the Administration's directive requiring future National Guard recruits to undergo six months of full-time military training-a plan that the politically influential Guard opposes as a hindrance to enlistments. "You know," he volunteered, "the thing was really sort of a scandal during the Korean war. It was a draft-dodging business. A boy of 17 to 18½ could enlist in the National Guard and not be drafted and sent to Korea...
...court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (he set up dummy trade and citizens' groups, helped keep in committee a New York State tax bill that would have cost A. & P. $2,000,000 a year). A Byoir maxim: "If the truth doesn't sound believable, don't tell...