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TIME'S review of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness [Dec. 22] was more jejune than usual. The sophomore-with-typewriter who pecked out this tirade quite evidently cannot distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality. The movie has more "treacle [than] the Great Boston Molasses Flood." Why not park your lad next to his cliché factory and pray for a small explosion...
David Goldbogen, brother of the late Cinemogul Mike Todd, last week had an eye-boggling idea for dressing up the plot in Forest Park, Ill., where Mike's body lies. The proposal: a 9-ft.-tall, 2-ton, $8,000 marble statue of filmdom's Oscar, which Mike won for Around the World in 80 Days (still busy at the box offices). No inscription would mar the marble, said David, adding thoughtfully: "We would want to keep the memorial simple." But at week's end Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences warned that...
Stoking up on lamb chops for breakfast and steak whenever they could get it, the Russians never stopped training, practiced incessantly, and when they could not get on the ice. trotted off to the local park for a wind-building game of soccer. In action, the Russians showed the results of such training by their ability to reach breakaway speed in three strides and a nimble-footed skill in passing the puck with a sidewise flick of their skates...
FIRST INDUSTRIAL PARK sponsored by City of New York is planned for 100 largely vacant acres in Brooklyn's Flatlands. City intends to condemn the land (assessed value: $2,725,000), sell it to industrial developers, figures it can attract $20 million worth of industrial building and 3,000 jobs...
...Pouser opened the rout, in the 123-lb. class, by pinning Tech's Stan Park at 5:39, after taking a 2-1 lead in the opening period. Two matches later, John Watkins, wrestling at 137, notched the varsity's second pin, beating M.I.T. sophomore Dave Lathan in 2:37. Nick Estabrook picked up another five points for the Crimson, the easy way, when an injury to Bob Forsten forced Tech to forfeit the 147-lb. division...