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...Ahead (David Niven; TIME...
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These men come to despise their sergeant (Billy Hartnell) so intensely that they formally charge him with abusing a martinet's privileges. But when the sergeant talks it over with his lieutenant (ex-star Lieut. Col. David Niven), you begin to realize just how much wisdom sometimes lies behind systematically rigid discipline. The sergeant's conclusion: "We haven't got a dud there...
United States does precisely that. With Cinemactor David Niven, now a lieutenant colonel in the British Army, acting as narrator, it shows first New York, which "isn't America," then traces U.S. history from the landing at Plymouth, through the Revolution, the Civil War, the settling of the West, winding up with a panorama of the current U.S. scene. Typical of the tone that makes United States so successful is the commentary on the Revolution: "The men of Washington's Army were no longer British subjects resisting the armed forces of their king. They were Americans, fighting...
Born. To Teresa Wright, 26, serene, green-eyed cinemactress (Mrs. Miniver, Casanova Brown, etc.), and Niven Busch, 41, easygoing Hollywood scriptwriter: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Weight...