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...strange case of Robert Stroud has been fashioned into an absorbing film that is deceptively calm and emotionally powerful. Burt Lancaster plays the bird man with a firm restraint that never conceals a deep-felt conviction that Stroud should not be in stir at all. Inevitably, this is Stroud's side of the case, as originally unearthed by Social Worker Thomas E. Gaddis in his 1955 book, Bird Man of Alcatraz. Fact is, Stroud, offscreen. was a stiff-necked, arrogant, impenitent man and at least initially a homicidal threat to society. Like Caryl Chessman, he had just enough brilliance...
...aspects of higher education, from what education is and who should have it down to what should be done about campus parking and organized song-fests. The book is controversial--if I may invoke an overused word. And I hope it will have a wide enough circulation to stir up ardent debates hither and yon. Personally, I find little to disagree with; but whether one endorses his conclusions or not, Eble has lined up the main arguments on both sides of each issue without omission and with welcome clarity...
Astute Interpreters. In Bonn, offering a rare show of unity, representatives of Germany's three major parties endorsed the Monnet declaration. But Adenauer seemed cool to it, and De Gaulle appeared not to notice all the stir. Though not referring directly to the Monnet statement, De Gaulle declared grandly to some French Senate leaders at an Elysee dinner: "I make Europe, while others confine themselves to talking about it." Later he added: "You talk about Europe...
...assortment of ice that Cartier recently sent over to Eddie's estranged wife Rhoda, 28. At week's end a federal grand jury indicted him for illegally withdrawing $1,953,000 of Bruce funds. Maximum possible sentence: $82,000 in fines, 74 years in stir...
...first breezes of the big windfall began to stir nine months ago, when Chairman Herbert Johnson of the famous wax company invited Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness to lunch in Racine. The company had earlier shown its taste in the arts by building a spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright building that is now a Wisconsin landmark. Now Johnson wanted to find out what the firm could do for U.S. painting. Nordness replied: Buy major paintings from top living U.S. artists and exhibit them as widely as possible...