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...year, has two children, a philosophy ("God is my kids, my old lady,* green grass, trees, machines and animals"), a mountaintop Hollywood home, and business interests worth $300,000. In the language of producers, he is white-hot. He has just finished Love with the Proper Stranger with Natalie Wood, and he is making Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and The Traveling Lady with Lee Remick. "I got loot, a family, property, and I'm heading for the big apple," he says, stepping on the gas. "You know-the brass ring. Everything's cool...
Wain deals with this in a way that is not aloof, but as if it had been observed by a sympathetic stranger. His family portrait serves as a reminder that all the English puritans were not harried out of the land; some stayed in old England to keep up. generation after generation, a solid but mainly silent opposition to the glories of blood and state. The Wains were pacifists, and the family felt holier-than-thou toward both working class and rulers: they alone were "saved" in a world of wicked madmen. Wain records the effect of this upbringing...
Thus James was no stranger to morbid gloom--nor could he easily dispose of the problem of evil. For him evil was real and palpable, but he refused to accept it as inevitable. Surely much of his anguished grouping in the realm of religion was due to this moral sensitivity and reluctance to compromise. To say that James was not a stranger to gloom is, by no means, to place him among the eternal groaners. Long periods of vivacity and ebullience followed his occasional fits of depression...
...Bandy-legged Bob Cousy, 34, the matchless playmaker, whipped sidearm passes the length of the court to launch Boston's fast break. Towering (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell, 29, swept in rebounds like an angry mother plucking her child from the arms of a too-attentive stranger. Sam Jones poured in points-29 the first night, 27 the next-as the Celtics, playing in Boston, swept the first two games of the best four-out-of-seven series...
This was the cue for Communist dem onstrations in half a dozen West Eu ropean cities; Nikita Khrushchev, no stranger to executions, had the gall to send a personal appeal for clemency to Franco. Grimau's wife vainly urged President Kennedy to intervene. The international pressure only stiffened the regime's determination to carry out the penalty. At a meeting with his Cabinet, Franco upheld the sentence...