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Steely Glint. In his new job General Taylor wears sober civilian suits, but they do nothing to cloak the commanding air of a professional soldier. Though he is doing his best to fit in with the freewheeling White House staffers-as non-military a group as any college faculty-the first time one of the resident eggheads greeted Taylor with an airy "Good morning, Max," the glint of steel flashed in the general's eye. But Taylor managed to restrain his celebrated talent for chewing out an offender and smiled a casual hello...
...makes his point by inviting a smile, Cover Subject Mauldin has a sober view of his trade. He thinks that "the American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery." He thinks times are getting worse-and therefore better...
...Kiddie Corps. Blasingame, who atones for his paltry .240 average with speed and spirit, seemed to congeal the Red infield. Hulking First Baseman Gordon Coleman, playing regularly for the first time, proved a surprise with a .299 average, 18 home runs, 55 runs batted in. Sober, balding Eddie Kasko developed into one of the most reliable shortstops around. At third, Freese. reputed to be a weak glove man, was fielding, as Pittsburgh Manager Danny Murtaugh put it, "like he had a monkey gland...
...second episode is a sober bit of flashbackery-an unmarried girl (Maj-Britt Nilsson) recalls, between labor pains, the lowlife who led her wrong. She remembers brooding in her room, when a note slid in over the sill: Will you open your door a little? She did, a little, and sat on the floor beside it. A glass of wine was pushed through the crack. She accepted it, and soon a small and very silly sculpture appeared in its place. She cradled the carving, and her reticent suitor started a Bergman serenade: "Just now my love is without end; Eternal...
...Truth (Hans Films; Kingsley-lnternational) is a half-serious attempt to make a wholly serious film starring Brigitte Bardot. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot succeeds for the most part in keeping his drama sober, although now and then he throws in a few peepshots for the skin trade. But his effort to be earnest has unstrung the tautness with which he filmed Diabolique and Wages of Fear. For its last half hour, Truth is as limp as old lettuce...