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...good as it sings and dances--and it does those very well. Particular notice should be given Felicity Colby, as the deadpan fan, Carol Derris as Kim's best friend, and Angel Phelan, the ludicrously seductive secretary. Strong support also comes from Jaye Schulman, the persistent mother, and George Selden, versatile Mayor and Shriner chieftain...
...Died. Selden Chapin. 63. U.S. career diplomat. Chargé d'Affaires to De Gaulle's wartime Free French government, both in Algiers and in Paris after the 1944 liberation; Minister to Hungary in 1949. where he was declared persona non grata for "conspiring" with Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty; Ambassador to Panama in 1955, where he renegotiated the "in perpetuity" agreement under which the U.S. controls the Canal; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the time of his death. Chapin was on his way to meet his wife on her return from the marriage of their...
...American Touch. The ward of former U.S. Ambassador to Iran Selden Chapin and a graduate in Oriental studies from Sarah Lawrence.* Hope met her widowed future husband four years ago while she was vacationing at the Indian resort of Darjeeling. But when the couple announced plans to marry last year, Sikkimese soothsayers forced the postponement of the wedding because of their forecast that 1962 was "a black year" for the marriage. Thus Hope had to wait until last week to become the first American girl to wed royalty since the daughter of a former Philadelphia bricklayer married Monaco...
...manifesto is no longer regarded as bombast: it cemented together a powerful group of young painters who are attracting an increasing amount of attention, not only at home but also abroad.* Though they were separately painting their agonized pictures before 1961, it was not until U.S. Art Critic Selden Rodman published his acerbic little book called The Insiders that they realized they had a philosophy in common. As a diatribe against abstraction. Rodman's book got a trouncing from many U.S. critics; as a summons to a "new humanism," it found an enthusiastic response in Mexico. The young Mexicans...
Speaker Rayburn lost no time evening the score against Congressmen who had voted against him in the Rules Committee fight. Alabama Democrat Armistead Selden Jr., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was all briefed and packed to go to a recent regional meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at Guadalajara. Mexico, but Rayburn turned thumbs down on the trip because Selden had voted with Judge Smith. Selden found a silver lining anyway: his anti-Rayburn stand on "Southern principles" gave him strong new popularity back home just when he needed it most...