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...embassies throughout the world, Producer Walter Wanger found enough similar opinions to send him to Hollywood's defense. Said he: "Poppycock!" The world's peoples, he argued, welcome the fresh air of America's uncensored, unsubsidized films. Producer Sam (The Bridge on the River Rival) Spiegel was less certain. Asked if he thought the U.S. film industry was meeting its international responsibility, Spiegel replied, "No. We in Hollywood live in an ivory tower-or an ivory sewer. We have absolutely no idea of the effect our movies have on people abroad...
...Words. In December West Germany's weekly Der Spiegel took up the story. One hundred thousand members of the teachers' association demanded that Teacher Zind be brought to trial; the Baden-Württemberg parliament belatedly investigated and was told that Zind had aired similar opinions in the classroom...
...assistant professor of Anatomy; Jin Harold Kinoshita, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry at the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology; William Samson Beck, assistant professor of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital; Daniel Abramson '24, assistant clinical professor of Obstetrics; John William Raker, assistant clinical professor of Surgery, and John Paul Spiegel, associate clinical professor of Psychiatry...
After conscientiously mulling over 1957's output of movies, the New York Film Critics and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures-the weightiest U.S. cinematic arbiters-announced their "best" choices, found themselves agreeing more than usual. Both groups marked The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) as the year's finest U.S.-produced film, Bridge's Alec Guinness and David Lean as best actor and director. Other decisions were split. Best actress: Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Critics), Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (Board). Best foreign movie: Gervaise...
Marriage Revealed. Sam Spiegel, 55, Austrian-born Hollywood producer (The Bridge on the River Kwai, On the Waterfront); and Betty Benson, 27, onetime model; he for the third time, she for the first; on Nov. 26, in Manhattan...