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...State Department quickly announced that Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania and a private citizen, was acting strictly on his own. But if he wanted a passport, he might have...
...River town on a rail. But the real-life claims of another pretender to the same identity were still in dispute last week. When he first arrived in Paris on May 26, 1833, he was a balding watchmaker with a thick mustache and a fringe of chin whiskers. His passport identified him as Karl Wilhelm Naundorff of Weimar, but the passport, its bearer promptly explained in almost incomprehensible French, was merely a blind; Karl Naundorff was in reality Louis, son of the guillotined Louis XVI, and the rightful King of France...
...Happiest Days of Your Life (London Films) is a nimble farce with a sound underpinning of character and comment. Though a few cuts below such blue-ribbon British comedies as Tight Little Island and Passport to Pimlico, it offers the rare inducement of watching two of Britain's best comics-Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford-as they steal scenes from each other...
Last week the State Department changed his plans. On the ground that he had misused his passport, DOS voided it (State took the same action against Paul Robeson a fortnight ago). Kent thought this was a dirty trick to play "on a man who was only working for peace," and added, "Anything that the Communists say about peace sounds good...
Said a State Department spokesman: "We won't give a passport to anybody else ... up to the same thing...