Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huston is full of praise for his stars. "Ava," he says, "can belt it out as well as belt it down." He knows that by bringing them all together in such a remote tropic, he has in effect manufactured a human grenade. "I plunked these people down together, and they have to live their parts 24 hours a day," he smiles. So far he is managing them well. The film is five days ahead of schedule. Last week he gave derringers to Richard, Elizabeth, Ava, Deborah, Sue and Producer Ray Stark. Each pistol contained five bullets in its chambers...
...OBSCENITY. When may governmental authorities censor or ban a book or movie without breaching the First Amendment? In two separate cases, involving bans on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and the French movie The Lovers, the court may try to clear up the muddle created by past Supreme Court decisions on obscenity...
...London's cocktail-party circuit, the 200-page manuscript that was handed to Harold Macmillan last week had been billed in advance as a sort of Tropic of Mayfair. Compiled by Lord Denning, Britain's second highest judicial official, the manuscript was the result of an exhaustive, three-month investigation into the security aspects of the great Profumo-Keeler-Ivanov scandal. But the churchgoing, teetotal jurist had also been directed by the Prime Minister to look into "rumors which affect the honor and integrity of public life," meaning gleeful, persistent gossip that several other ministers in Macmillan...
...things, Pacific War Diary is a fine and valuable book. Nobody can read Fahey's endless and well-documented complaints about how little sleep he got without wondering how men could survive that way for months on end. Half-starved, sleepless, alternately boiled, roasted and half-drowned in tropic downpours, James Fahey, Seaman First Class, and 1,300 shipmates fought through from the Solomons to the surrender of Japan. Montpelier's guns blasted away furiously in a dozen Solomons engagements; Fahey complained of the noise in his ears. After the decisive battles off Saipan and in the Philippine...
...hospital. * When John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk, was convicted last October of spying for the Russians, Macmillan summarily fired the clerk's superior, Thomas Galbraith, who had written the clerk some letters starting "My dear Vassall." Galbraith was later wholly exonerated. * Though possibly not in Britain, where Tropic of Cancer has been a bestseller for months and the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley's Lover has sold 3,500,000 paperback copies...