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Since 1963, when she first saw Peter Sellers in I'm All Right, Jack, Paris Correspondent Sandra Burton has been haunted by the actor's zany alter egos. "His portrayal of a stupidly arrogant British shop steward kept creeping into my college thesis on Britain's Angry Young Men," she recalls. "In 1974, when I was interviewing an M.I.T. disarmament expert for TIME, I couldn't help thinking of Sellers' Dr. Strangelove. And his Inspector Clouseau defined my first encounter with a French police detective." But when Burton interviewed Sellers in Paris for this week...
There is another line to his career: his interest in the implacably impervious. It was this quality that first brought him fame?as Fred Kite, the stupefyingly literal-minded and selfish union shop steward in I'm All Right, Jack (1960). It also the source of hilarity in that small masterpiece, The Party, in which Sellers plays a beturbanned Indian, somehow-invited to a grand affair, and wandering through it, friendless and almost silent, but wreaking havoc wherever he turns. Finally, this impermeability is the mark of his great Inspector Clouseau. In countless scenes such as the one from...
There could be no better present than a good contract for dining hall workers, said Edward Childs, co-chief shop steward of Local 26. "I'd like Harvard to see how Scrooge in 'The Christmas Carol' changed his mind at Christmastime. This could be a New Year's resolution," he added...
When Peoples filed the grievance, Edward B. Childs, chief steward in Adams House dining hall, said that the UHS management complaints against Peoples were insignificant and that he believed they resulted from Peoples' labor activity. Childs was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...time of his death Sampson, who also held a degree from the University of Virginia Medical School, was a shop steward for the American clothing and Textile Workers Union at the Cone Mills textile plant in Haw River. N.C. He was working inside the plant to build the union's strength on a day-to-day basis. "He knew that orgainizing workers was not over after an election was won at a plant." Charles Finch, an acquaintance of Sampson, said Monday...