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...home building and foreign policy probably changed nobody's vote. But the occasion did set the Manchester Guardian to musing about the meaning of ceremony in a democracy: "The Imperial State Crown, the Cap of Maintenance, the Sword of State, the Heralds, the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshals make up a beautiful charade, but if all were swept away tomorrow it would make not the slightest difference to the government of the country...
...Everybody wants me to play another dotty leftenant colonel," said Alec Guinness, alluding-in an interview with syndicated Nightscrawler Earl Wilson-to his Academy Award-winning interpretation of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. "The moneybags always say, 'Let's make another picture exactly like the last one'-and they lose their shirts. Now we're in the middle of the horror cycle. I hope they all do lose their shirts...
...motto of the second Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby is Non vi sed arte (Not by force but by art). His arms include a beehive beset by nine bees volant, his crest a demilion gules holding in the dexter paw a crescent or. Last week an artful bee volant from Hoboken was buzzing about the prettiest hive ever to bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while...
...lonely Washington, Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman George Smathers, the Florida sparkler, called for reporters and tartly read off Butler for discussion that "takes people's minds off the virtues of the Democratic Party." In Louisiana, slow-burning Governor Earl Long, brother to the late Huey, proclaimed: "I've been hearing things like that 'integrate or get out' for a long time. You can tell Mr. Butler I said I don't intend to do either." Many a Southern politician echoed the sharp words of Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman: "Instead of the South being thrown...
Died. Jack Norton (real name: Mortimer J. Naughton), 69, who was known to millions through his role on stage (Ziegfeld Follies, Earl Carroll's Vanities) and screen (The Farmer's Daughter, The Fleet's In) as a staggering drunk, usually in top hat and tails; of a respiratory ailment; at Saranac Lake...