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...against tyranny, and Virginia made the Fifth part of the price of ratifying the Constitution because history has demonstrated that the need for the protection is abiding. And history has also demonstrated that, however this section of the amendment may be misused, its necessity to a free society remains paramount...
Funny Face (Paramount) is one of those big Technicolor musicals that stagger toward the culminating nuptials like a determined but overequipped bride. The burden includes something old: Fred Astaire, now 56 and at last beginning to show it. Something new: Audrey Hepburn in her first musical. Something borrowed: six songs by George Gershwin, four of them from the 1927 musical of the same name. And something blue: the audience...
Liberia had laid out the red carpet. Nixon was appointed honorary paramount chief of all the Liberian tribes (permitting him, if he should ever decide to retire to Liberia, to marry as many wives as he can support). Handshaking and waving his way through crowded village and city streets, he got a handsome welcome from President William V. S. Tubman, who reflected his country's devotion to the U.S. with dinners, gifts (carved ivory box, solid gold watch chain) and words ("Our strongest, closest and most reliable friend"). On behalf of a friendly...
Fear Strikes Out (Paramount) rolls Frank Merriwell and Sigmund Freud into a ball and then lines it out for a solid hit. The film is based on the widely read autobiography of Jim Piersall. the fleet-footed outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, who suffered an emotional collapse five years ago which almost ended his career before it began. Unlikely as it may look from the bleachers, Piersall suffered from what has been called the Laius complex.* Piersall's father (Karl Malden), according to the script, was a wild ball hawk whose wings were clipped by family responsibilities...
Died. B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, 65, oldtime film producer (Wings), first Academy Award winner, sometime Paramount Pictures executive credited with introducing Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple, father of Novelist Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg; of a stroke; at his home on Key Biscayne...