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...Singer Yves Montand, was an unabashed fellow traveler, and she too has displayed a few leftish twinges) troubles her not at all. "My mother," says she, "was the kind to tan hides when people haven't given up a seat in the metro or taken back a racist remark. I'm a little bit like that...
...reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to be sure he was dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures...
...TIME, I happened upon a picture of my "uncle," Painter Claes Oldenburg, engaging in a "happening." My mother, who was violently washing dishes at the time, calmed down long enough to read me your article on what's happening with the "happenings." I was very interested in a remark attributed to my father, Jim Dine, to the effect that he wanted to show the violence in the home. In my ten months of life, I can recall only three violent acts committed by my father in our home. Two of them were attacks of indigestion, and the third...
...exile gathering by singing songs and dancing the czardas. But no brand of logic served to explain the internment of a clutch of former Spanish Loyalists for whom the only important enemy remains Generalissimo Franco. "I am absolutely not interested in Khrushchev," spat one of the Spaniards, a remark that could equally well have been made by the three interned Nationalist Chinese consular employees or the former Royal Albanian Army officer turned house painter. Among the Spaniards was famed peasant General Gonzales, known as "El Campesino." who. after quarreling with his Communist comrades of the Spanish Civil War was imprisoned...
...sickening spectacle. I watched a leading Blantyre policeman do these things to Africans who never hit back: strike them across the stomachs with stout black canes, knee Africans who were pleading for symbolic arrest, strike women . . ." Added the London Daily Telegraph of the watching Europeans: "I heard one remark, 'Funny little monkeys, aren't they...