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...living giant of film history. I would compare him to Picasso in the art world." Martin E. Segal, president of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, was confirming that Charles Spencer Chaplin was coming to Manhattan for an 83rd birthday party at the center before going on to Hollywood to receive a special citation at the Academy Awards on April 10. Charlie Chaplin, a British subject who refused to return to the U.S. for 20 years after the Attorney General demanded that he prove his "moral worth," said he had no more hard feelings. "I had my say," declared Charlie...
Married. John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, 74, tenth Duke of Marlborough and cousin of the late Sir Winston; and Mrs. Laura Canfield, 56, granddaughter of the eleventh Earl of Wemyss :and March; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in London...
...classic example still remembered with shudders on two continents was entitled "Fangs a Lot," an article about what had happened to Kwame Nkrumah's zoo "since the day he was ostrichized." That one actually appeared in the World section of April 8, 1966. Last week Associate Editor Spencer Davidson was faced with the news that Italian shops have been giving their customers candy instead of small change. Instantly Davidson saw the punny possibilities. He turned out a saga called-what else?-"The Italian Confection." The scenario involves an economics professor named Mel Marzi (played by Henry Fondant) who comes...
Some of Nixon's appointees are of less distinction. U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti of San Francisco has a reputation with the bar for regressive rulings-including taking the highly unusual action of denying bail to four Selective Service defendants. Spencer Williams of the same court was found barely qualified by the A.B.A. On the Fifth Circuit, which covers much of the South, Joe McDonald Ingraham ranks as a less than distinguished choice; as a trial judge, he gave Muhammad Ali the maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine for refusing to be drafted. The conviction...
Finally, a year later, it's arrived. And it, to tell the truth, is a little disconcerting. The people are the same--aside from Spencer Dryden, the ex-Airplane drummer who replaced Hart when he left (or was purged) from the Dead sometime last winter. But the album doesn...