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...Universities. When the Daily Pennsylvanian was suspended temporarily, the CRIMSON rushed to Philadelphia with a special edition expressing sympathy for the paper. While the University of Illinois was expelling a professor for advocating free love and other assorted "dirtinesses," Harvard came to the defense of its researcher John P. Spiegel who had been prosecuted for obtaining pornographic pictures despite his claims and the affirmation of his entire department that the pictures were necessary for the type of research he was doing...
...Spiegel is as arbitrary about his background as he used to be about his name. Born some 58, 59 or 60 years ago in Jaroslau, Austria (now Poland), he studied at the University of Vienna, went to work as a "Young Pioneer" in Palestine. Sensing greater profits elsewhere, Spiegel became a cotton broker, traveled to the U.S. on business. In Hollywood he so charmed M-G-M Producer Paul Bern that Bern put him under contract as reader and adviser...
...Universal sent him to Berlin to arrange for the exhibition of the German version of All Quiet on the Western Front. The film was banned when the Nazis bombed the theater opening night, but Spiegel ran a series of private screenings for Reichstag members and Nazi Leaders Hitler, Goebbels, and Goring. Over the Nazis' protests, the ban was lifted. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Spiegel thought it best to flee to Vienna. Six years later, he returned to Hollywood with an idea for casting a picture with nothing but stars. Tales of Manhattan had nothing...
Oscars to Come? All through the Eagle years, he looked for the right big picture, found it in 1951 on a shelf in the Warner Bros, story department. Spiegel dusted off The African Queen, surprised filmland by casting it not with regular types like Robert Taylor and Betty Grable, but with a combination considered far-out indeed-Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Queen became the first Spiegel film to get an Oscar (Bogart's), and others trod hard on its golden heels: Waterfront won eight, River Kwai brought the total to 16. Lawrence made...
Arabia or Palm Springs? Spiegel, too, has got what he was after. He describes his esthetic attempts with a certain convolution more fitting to script-writing than speech: "I want to explore the variations on the theme of a man being basically in conflict with his own destiny, asserting his instinct for constructiveness, conflicting with the destructive forces around him." But his search for motion-picture reality is earnest: he built miles of roads in Ceylon while making River Kwai, hired 16 elephants to haul the 30,000 cu. ft. of timber used to build the bridge. "One Hollywood joker...