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Success has a universal touch that an army of market researchers could not improve on. Its humor dashes unpuffing from varnished vulgarity (Jayne is the "titular head" of a fictitious film outfit) to national institutions (Groucho Marx materializes as Jayne's first love). Actress Mansfield, a comic genius whenever she plays Jayne Mansfield, slithers into the skintight role of Jayne Mansfield. If the fun bogs slightly and if some of the gags have family reunions in the end, Director Tashlin may be forgiven for too-muching his good thing. Hollywood has every right to try beating its rival...
Before getting ready to return to Poland and his own precarious balancing act with the Reds, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski last week formally accepted his titular Roman church (a parish in Rome is traditionally allocated to every cardinal). The squalid neighborhood surrounding the medieval Santa Maria in Trastevere is heavily Communist, but it turned out to give him Rome's biggest welcome to any cardinal within memory. From the altar Wyszynski asked for the peoples' prayers "for myself and for my poor martyred country. Poland has always been, is still today, and always will be the outer rampart...
...army's Banteng (Buffalo) Division had seized control of Central Sumatra in a bloodless revolt. Organizer of the coup was Lieut. Colonel Ahmad Husein, an ex-guerrilla leader who was called "the Tiger of Central Sumatra" for his exploits against the Dutch during the revolution. Husein turned over titular authority of the region to 37-year-old Colonel Simbolon, a Dutch-educated Protestant who only a year ago was Mohammed Hatta's candidate for chief of staff. Simbolon announced that he would rule Central Sumatra independently until the central government " met "the people's demand for economic...
...Titular Sovereign." For their country's exclusion from the Suez conference, Panamanians are angry at the U.S. rather than Britain. They are convinced that Secretary of State Dulles vetoed Panama because he wanted to keep from getting the Panama Canal even remotely mixed up with the Suez crisis. Panamanians point out that their country is the "titular sovereign" in the Canal Zone...
...What I Think is a selection of the Democratic leader's speeches and writings since 1952, and as such contains nothing that some listeners or readers in the country have not already encountered. Even the introduction, in which the author describes the role he has tried to play as "titular head" of an opposition party, and which is the only "new" piece in the book, turns out to be a rather faithful rehash of Mr. Stevenson's article in this February's issue of Harper's Magazine...