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Starts Wednesday: Another Hollywood re-tread, this one of a delightful Marcel Pagnol novel, Fanny, which became, progressively, a stage play, a fine trilogy of films, a dull Broadway musical, and now all this -- the poorest of the lot. The principals are Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz and (how could it possibly be a decent picture?) Maurice Chevalier. Joshua Logan directed. Afternoons and evenings...
...grew 262 acres of corn on his 1,200-acre dairy and poultry farm at Big Flats, N.Y., where he also owns a restaurant and has varied business investments. This year, in protest against the Government's subsidy program, he agreed to take 104 acres of his poorest corn land out of production. He picked up his advance Government check for $3,049, used it as a down payment on a new, bronze $6,100 Cadillac, promised to pay the balance with another $3,451 check due from the Government at season's end. He dressed...
...loyalty. Abandonment here means that a majority of children say their father does not live at home. And abandonment is the insularity of inferior government services, of political impotence, of being a football in organized charity's fights with the city of Cambridge, of living in The Elms, roughest, poorest, dirtiest most hopeless blocks in the city...
...contracted a near-fatal case of rheumatic fever at the age of eight. His father, described by Darin as a small-scale gangster, died before Bobby was born. Supported by his mother's relief money, he grew up in one of Manhattan's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, steadily refused membership in district gangs, studied hard and learned to play the drums, won admission to the excellent Bronx High School of Science. During vacations, he picked up show business experience entertaining at Catskill summer camps...
...Colonel Rainborough in the Putney Debates on manhood suffrage put it to Oliver Cromwell, "I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the richest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent put himself under that government." While St. Robert Bellarmine is entitled to the greatest credit for his unpopular thesis in those days that the authority of the Pope over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual, this is not nearly...