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Died. Herbert Marshall, 75, British-born cinemactor, who lost his right leg in World War I, learned to walk with only the barest limp on an artificial limb, then emigrated to the U.S. and became the very model of a Hollywood Briton in all the stereotypes from charming rake (Trouble in Paradise) to losing-but-noble lover (Accent on Youth); apparently of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...shared the obsession of its king-it was sex-mad. From that consuming passion sprang the witty, monomaniacally bawdy drama known as Restoration comedy. If Congreve was the age's greatest theatrical wit, Wycherley (1640-1715) may well have been its most vigorous social chronicler. He was a rake who later reformed, with all the zealotry that implies. In him, the pagan warred with the Puritan, the scandalizer with the sermonizer, and perhaps never more fiercely than in his most durable play, The Country Wife...
...important than being able to move over it quickly and at will. Helicopters play a vital, versatile role: they ferry in whole battalions for surprise assaults, carry supplies and reinforcements to the besieged, as in the battle of Plei Me (TIME, Nov. 5), rescue the wounded and the stranded, rake the enemy with fire. And hundreds more are needed. Since President Johnson ordered the massive U.S. buildup in Viet Nam last summer, no single force has expanded faster than the Army's helicopter corps...
...Constables are also in cahoots with some magistrates to use the courts as a debt-collection agency. To help constables rake in commissions as high as 50%, for example, such magistrates issue arrest warrants for "civil debt"-a result-getter that has been illegal in Pennsylvania since 1842. As soon as he took office in 1961, Magistrate Harry C. Schwartz incorporated the Active Collection Agency with his wife as president and Constable Abraham Siegel as treasurer. Magistrate Schwartz openly welcomes A.C.A. cases-and shares his wife's 50% split of the profits...
Retribution and reward are distributed among these four with the fitness of a fairy tale, and that, in effect, is what The Knack is. It's theme is the old Grimm Brother favorite of feeling's triumph over unfeeling, innocence's defeat of evil. Would a rake like Tolen be likely to harbor a secret dread of unjust arrest for rape? Well, no, but we accept his breakdown because we are more interested in seeing that he gets his comcuppance than in justifying it psychologically. And surely our wishes rather than our reallife expectations are satisfied by the simultaneous flowering...