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...fuel, feed and arm the Allied fighting machine, some 6,000 tons of war materiel must be funneled daily through the port of Saigon. The labor is usually done by Vietnamese stevedores; the men of the U.S. Army's 4th Transportation Command seldom lift anything heavier than a clipboard as they direct the flow of goods. But last week the Saigon Dock Workers Union went out on strike. To keep things moving off the ships, 800 U.S. soldiers stepped in to do the heaving and toting ordinarily done by three times that many Vietnamese. From cannon barrels...
...Seasons: best picture, best direction (Fred Zinnemann), best script (Playwright Robert Bolt), and best actor. This last honor went to Britain's Paul Scofield, who as Thomas More plays a saint without seeming self-righteous, a giant of his age without seeming supercolossal. American audiences, who seldom get to see Scofield, will probably agree-and conclude as well that Scofield ranks with the best of England's superior breed of actors...
...world seldom rewards youthful poetic flights with more than an indulgent pat on the head. Children's poetry usually gets published in block letters on the classroom wall, commissioned by the teacher and dutifully admired by proud parents on go-to-school nights. If some young Ariel occasionally soars past the lyrical altitude expected of his years, the world only marvels at his precocity. But Richard Lewis, 31, believes that children are born poets who move surely through the language of metaphor and song, and he offers this anthology in evidence...
Fitting at 3 a.m. English tailor-made suits carry no labels, and the firms themselves seldom, if ever, advertise, prefer to prosper by word of mouth. The remark, "My London tailor's in town," quietly passed along among friends, seems to work wonders. J. C. Wells Ltd. sent its first traveling man to the U.S. in 1927 on a "prestige visit," was surprised when he came back with 100 orders; this year Wells's man, A.S. Richardson, brought back 1,000 orders, an increase of 200 over five years ago. Henry Poole & Co. has American family accounts going...
...Seldom in these days of coast-to-coast screens and retina-wrecking color is a play so tastefully transformed into a film. Scene after scene is played in sober old Tudor houses glozed by candlelight, or by the warm green verges of the New Forest. The costumes are rich, not gaudy, and the actors are borne lightly on the lucid stream of language that flows throughout the film. Even more mesmerically than he did in the play, Paul Scofield pulls all eyes toward himself by the abundance and subtlety of what seems to be happening inside him. Seen close...