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...that it was written by a man with brass lungs and a tin ear. Who Lost an American? sounds like a bellowing recitative by a carnival barker who stops at nothing but to laugh at his own jokes. It takes Algren to foreign parts like New York, Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Crete, and back, of course, to dear old untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American traveler since the innocents went abroad in Mark Twain's generation...
...Near Dublin, the cast, crew, director, scenarists, and flacks connected with filming Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage have been behaving as if they were making another version of the offscreen Cleopatra. Soon after shooting began a couple of months ago, Roderick Mann of London's Sunday Express arrived for an exclusive interview with Kim Novak-and that's what he got. He stopped taking notes and started holding hands with her at the races. "This is a very personal thing between Roddy and me," Kim tells Roddy's competitors. Meanwhile. Director Henry Hathaway...
Kennedy's week was mostly social and ceremonial. In his oval office, he chatted with the visiting Lord Mayor of Dublin about politics, the Irish Derby and his upcoming visit to Ireland. A delegation including Actress Joan Crawford, chairman of "Stars for Mental Health," presented him with a gold miniature of a bell cast from the shackles that once restrained inmates of a mental asylum...
...Hilton in a fortnight. And it will launch six more hotels abroad this year-in Athens, Hong Kong, Montreal, Rome, Rotterdam, and Tokyo. Intercontinental Hotels, a subsidiary of Pan American, plans to add nine new hotels to its present 14 before year's end. They will be in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Frankfurt, Vienna, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, and at Abidjan on the Ivory Coast...
Sheraton Corp. recently began an overseas push, this week swings open the doors of its 300-room Macuto-Sheraton near Caracas, Venezuela. Rising 258 ft. above Brussels' Renaissance Grand Place is the 250-room Brussels Westbury, which Knott Hotels will open next month. From Dublin to Tokyo, dozens of other de luxe hotels, most of them built under American guidance and often partly financed by U.S. capital, are under construction...