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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more startling is the success of Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which is currently being re-released to convulsed audiences in Europe. Interspersed scenes such as Hitler doing a balloon dance with a globe are obvious ridicule, with very doubtful historic basis. But the story focuses on a sort of polar struggle between the gestapo and "the ghetto," which seems incredibly funny even to Europeans...
...This sort of thing-and McFarland's strong showing in the primary last fortnight-had Arizonans giving Folksy Mac the edge. But it was, after all, a personality contest, the kind of competition Barry Goldwater likes. "I have to get 90% of the Republican vote and 30% of the Democrat." said Barry Goldwater, reckoning his chances in a state where Democrats lead in registration 2½ to 1, "and I think...
...towering pinnacle of bridge success, Charlie Goren has plenty to keep him busy, aside from playing bridge: his syndicated column (he writes it himself, in longhand), a regular department in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, trips abroad as a sort of U.S. ambassador to overseas bridgedom, 10,000 letters a year from bridge fans (many include ticklish bridge problems, but with the help of his staff he answers them all), and a venture called Goren Enterprises, which licenses manufacture of such items as a card-table cover with rules of the game printed on it and cocktail napkins decorated with cartoons and useful...
Goren's six club bid was unorthodox but brilliant. It was just the sort of bid a bridge player can make with a partner like Helen Sobel-if the player himself happens to be Charles Goren, king of the aces...
...ringmaster for the three-ring circus that surrounds Mr. Poston is George Abbott, who seems to have been directing this sort of play since long before nearly anybody was born. In his old age Mr. Abbott has grown permissive towards arm-waving and other forms of over-acting, but nobody can deny that he keeps things fairly lively. Among his hired hands, Paul Hartman is disappointing as the septuxorial playboy, but a tubby gent named John McGiver, playing the foggiest of Mr. Poston's employers, takes up some of the slack by being funny both drunk and sober...