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...great screen lover of yore-to play the cuckolded husband. In a secondary role, Boyer deftly blends temperament and tolerance to contrast against the beautiful worthlessness of Sorel. But Julia becomes most adorable when Actress Palmer wriggles into character to show all the charm, vanity, insight, ego, witchery and wit of a woman who would rather have top billing than top cooing. Enjoying a last fling at youth, Julia tucks away her qualms, reaches for her checkbook and asks her swain: "How can I thank you?" He knows. So does she. "I haven't cried since The Stricken Heart...
...Life was desperately droll, but then Colonel Joseph Ryan arrives and the fun departs. As senior-officer-in-captivity, Ryan sets about shaping the men up for the day of their great escape. "I do expect military haircuts," he begins, and the troops get restless. "Von Ryan," one agile wit calls from the ranks, "you're in the wrong army...
...worst thing about being a drop out," deadpans Comedian-Singer Allan Sherman, 39, "is that you don't have a school song. So I wrote one." The result, seven verses of roughshod wit set to a lively medley of college tunes, is the hit of Sherman's new record, Allan in Wonderland. His mordant Drop-Outs March may do more to keep kids in school than hours of sermonizing by principals and parents. Samples: 4/4 TIME, FORTE
...Senate floor, the supporters of the civil rights bill have displayed consistent eloquence, wit, courtesy, and intelligence. Unhappily they are not on the Senate floor enough. The Northern coalition, nailed together by the diligence of Senator Humphrey, has begun to creak and groan...
...tread light; Close, but untouching in each other's sight; Mouldered the lips and ashy the tall skull. Let them lie perilous and beautiful. Full of tart paradox and sweet passion, Ransom is himself a poetic equilibrist of rare skill. Girded against sentiment with irony, against dullness with wit and cerebral learning, he yet manages to convey the flavor of an innocent past when poetry was thought to treat directly of such things as Truth and Beauty. When he accepted the 1964 award, with typical courtesy he gave thought to "the other nominated poets who were passed over...