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When George Murphy speaks, the easy Irish charm of an old-style city ward heeler pours forth. His blue eyes, set off by pink cheeks and carefully coifed, grey-streaked hair, throw a friendly glint. At the slightest sound of applause, Murphy is transported happily back to the heyday, 25 years ago, when he song-and-danced his way across the nation's cinema screens. Then the ham in him surfaces, and he talks and talks and talks until his aides tug at him and tell him it is time to quit...
...appointments-mostly ceremonial and out of public view. For a war memorial dedication at Quebec's historical old Citadel, only 1,500 of 2,500 invited guests bothered to show up; and no sooner were the formal ceremonies under way than another minor demonstration erupted outside the high grey wall surrounding the Citadel. The next day was spent quietly on shipboard, entertaining special guests at a state luncheon...
Despite its carnival air, the great silver-grey rock is still first and foremost the world's most impregnable natural fortress - one that might have been designed for the nuclear age. It is manned by 1,000 men of the Royal Air Force, some 700 Royal Navy personnel, and two companies of British soldiers. The troops, men from the Middlesex Regiment, provide a colorful guard for the governor, train Gibraltar's draftees, and keep ready to support the island's civil authorities in any emergency that might arise. The limestone Rock is a rabbit warren of caverns...
...Sweat. Heifetz lives alone; he has been twice divorced. He prefers small dinners with close friends to the glamour bashes, though his acquaintance among the stars has always been extensive, and when he zips around, he does his zipping in a grey Bentley. Piatigorsky's wife Jacqueline, a daughter of the late Baron Edouard de Rothschild, is a busy painter, sometime bassoon player, and alltime chess addict who ranks as one of the top ten women players in the U.S. Gregor counters with writing (he has written an autobiography), oceanography and herpetology ("Snakes are so misunderstood...
With such stuff included, Chaplin's frequent omissions are puzzling. He never mentions the name of his second wife, Lita Grey,* mother of his two eldest sons. So much is omitted, in fact, that little is left from which to deduce Chaplin's mature feelings and beliefs-beyond his lifelong insistence that he has never been a Communist, and the apparent mellowing of his resentment against the U.S. as he grows old and turns inward to bask in the profound joy of his life with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and their eight children...