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State took the protest "under advisement" and left it there. But CBS last week was told by the Russians that its Moscow bureau had become "unnecessary." CBS Moscow Correspondent Paul Niven got two weeks notice to clear out. Lamented CBS Vice President (in charge of news) Sig Nickelson: "The injury to CBS News is less than the injury to the American public, because this action destroys one more channel in the flow of firsthand information...
...Each morning, before the show goes on, each contestant sees a producer. He says something like 'Well, what will we talk about today? Who holds the record for home runs? You know-Babe Ruth.' Then he'll say: 'How would you recognize David Niven?' Sure enough, when the dots fill in, there's David Niven...
...affair between father (David Niven) and daughter (Jean Seberg), which takes place mostly on the French Riviera, is not physical. Incest, as this story sees it, is emotional infantilism-the fear of life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
Director Preminger has done well with his actors, too. David Niven is remarkable as the sort of rake that accumulates his life in his face, like a pile of dead leaves. Deborah Kerr provides one transcendent scene in which, as she overhears her man with another woman, her prim, pretty English face breaks up like a cooky in the fingers of a child. And Jean Seberg, rebounding from her disastrous debut as Joan of Arc (TIME, July 1), blooms with just the right suggestion of unhealthy freshness, a cemetery flower...
...delegation from the baseball and entertainment worlds affectionately paid homage on NBC-TV to the matriarch of the U.S. theater, Actress Ethel Barrymore, 78. The tasteful mish-maash of misty-eyed reminiscence deeply affected Actress Barrymore. She got a warm message from Sir Winston Churchill, orated by Cinemactor David Niven. Day before the show, inveterate Baseball Fan Barrymore, taking it easy in a wheelchair during tiring rehearsals, batted the breeze with Daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt and some diamond luminaries who later took part in the TV salute-Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, NBC Sport Consultant Leo ("The Lip" ) Durocher...