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...attracts attention to what he is doing, but an artist who reveals what he is. And what Sellers is, solely and invariably, is the character he is portraying. In playing Shaw's exotic sawbones, he employs all manner of visual props: a purple complexion, a sweaty old fur cap, a superb Calcutta accent that sounds as though he had swallowed a noisy fly as he opened his mouth to talk. Nevertheless, the makeup helps to make, not a music-hall figure of fun, but a man-a gentle, warm, naive and wonderfully decent man. Sellers obviously loves...
...Father Joe?" Shorn of snow, shining in the sun's glare, the wide avenues and the Capitol plaza bristled with tens of thousands of onlookers in bright stocking caps, fur coats and warm blankets as protection against the 20° temperature. The big inaugural platform on the steps of the Capitol's east portico was studded with eight white Corinthian columns matching those of the Capitol itself. U.S. flags whipped in the stiff wind above the great marble office buildings and the Library of Congress...
Opening the Way. For the U.S. Northwest, the treaty broadened a vista that first opened in 1792, when Captain Robert Gray, fur trader from Boston, steered the schooner Columbia past the dangerous reefs at the river's mouth and named the mighty stream after his ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only...
...Aeromedical Field Laboratory, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, about 20 chimponauts have almost finished their training this week for the fur-raising duty of pioneering in space psychology. Presumably they will teach their tormentors whether a spaceborne man will be psychologically capable of managing the instruments and communications of his swiftly moving craft. Since chimps are easier to train before they reach puberty, the pioneers are all relatively younger than the seven human astronauts, all married and fathers, who are training for the Mercury man-in-space program. Of the more promising chimponauts, only one is American-born...
Make Mine Mink. Another suitably dotty but amiable bit of British nonsense, casting Comedian Terry-Thomas as a Robin Hoodish retired major who masterminds (and sometimes absentminds) a fur-shop larceny...