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Battling Bachelor. Halimi, who carries Cerdan's picture with him everywhere, is as tough as any of them. The youngest of 18 children of a poor Jewish postal inspector, he quit school at twelve and became a tailor's apprentice. Five years later he sewed himself a pair of green and red trunks, decorated them with a Star of David, and became a boxer. As an amateur, he was champion of France in 1953, '54 and '55. When he turned pro in 1955, he went back to Algeria to begin his career. Along with every other...
Scriptwriter Frank Nugent did the original story an injustice by introducing extraneous characters and de-emphasizing the police inspector, but Majesty still comes across very well. Cyril Cusack gives the best performance in the film as the inspector, and Noel Purcell is almost as good. The rest of the characters are Mr. Nugent's creatures, and are more than a little hammy. But then, Ireland may be a little hammy...
Gordon himself came accidentally into book-selling on Harvard Square. In 1922, he left a potato inspector job in Manitoba to study first landscape architecture, then English literature at the Graduate School. He was more interested in reading than exams, however, and bought so many books that he had to rent a room for them. Much of the present collection is new, but a few books survive from his days in Divinity Hall. "Twenty-eight hundred books," he says, explaining the shop. "I had to do something with them. I sold one just the other week. This fellow came...
...great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought...
...days, no one ever dared arrest a member of the ruling dynasty of Tunisia. But last week Prince Salaheddine, boisterous third son of the Bey of Tunis, languished in a jail charged with attempted murder of a police inspector (he had played once too often his favorite game of driving full speed toward a cop and slamming on the brakes just in time). Salaheddine's arrest was a sign that the end was near. Before the week was out the 76-year-old Bey, whose family has ruled Tunisia for 250 years, was unceremoniously toppled from his throne...