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...Emphasizing its new status, however, Pakistan let it be known it would not welcome Lord Louis Mountbatten, last Viceroy of India and now Britain's First Sea Lord, who planned to visit Pakistan in the course of a round-robin visit to Commonwealth naval commanders. Pakistan links Mountbatten with bitter memories of the partition of India and Pakistan. Mountbatten bowed gracefully to the protests and canceled his visit...
...movie, too, is funny. It starts in a forest--not unlike Sherwood Forest--where the Black Fox--not unlike Robin Hood--is hiding out with his gang of trusty-men. Danny Kaye and Glynis Johns are trusty-men. Miss Johns is a Captain and Danny Kaye is the Prince's nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel...
...back to the heights, ex-Movie Musicomedienne and Autobiographer Lillian (I'll Cry Tomorrow) Roth, 45, was drawing dewy-eyed patrons and rave notices at Manhattan's prim Hotel Plaza. Between shows, where she belted out old songs she had made famous, e.g., When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along, vibrant Songstress Roth philosophized about her old problem. Hearing a report that Actress Diana Barrymore (TIME, Jan. 23) had spent only five weeks in a sanitarium (where she had voluntarily consigned herself to be treated for alcoholism for a planned six months), Lillian said...
...Died. Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, 65, top-rank radio and film (The Arkansas Traveler, I'm from Missouri) comedian of the '30s and '40s; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...
...Cellar. If Curley really sues, it will be like biting the hand that applauds him. For Skeffington is a lovable rogue-a combination of Santa Claus, Robin Hood, a Chinese warlord and the late John Barrymore. Over 70, Skeffington decides to run for re-election as mayor of the nameless big city, where the candidates usually share three qualifications ("All were Democrats, all were Irish, all were Catholics"). The old campaigner invites his nephew Adam to tag along and get acquainted with politics. It is through Adam's eyes that one sees the great old pro and his enemies...