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...autobiography, R.S.V.P., fickle Party Girl Elsa Maxwell, 74, dropped lowest of all the name of Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk: "My R.S.V.P. to an invitation to dine with Farouk [in 1950] was a telegram to his equerry which read, 'I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters.' I learned that Farouk screamed like a pig-what else?-when he saw the telegram." Farouk, always in need of money, slapped a $14,000 defamation-of-character suit on Elsa, who also has little money but seldom needs it. The hearing ended last week...
...Monkey on My Back (United Artists) is a picture about drug addiction that jabs the moviegoer full of sickly thrills while piously professing that it is simply pointing a moral with a morphine needle...
...more be taken seriously than a tour of the haunted house in an amusement park, although Ross himself has not taken drugs for ten years. As the first of three opium operas that have been scheduled since narcotics became a suitable subject for Hollywood films (TIME, Dec. 24), Monkey on My Back suggests strongly that it is already high time Hollywood kicked the habit...
...Shoot the Monkey. Amid Labor yells of "Salisbury!" and "Mind your back!" Macmillan plodded through a lackluster rebuttal, the gist of which was that things were not so bad as Gaitskell made out. With even less success, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There...
...stood up in the stirrups. It checked Gallant Man for an eye flick-and in that instant the issue was settled. The photo showed that Iron Liege had crossed the line a nose in front, for $109,550 first money and Calumet's sixth Derby. "He made a monkey out of me," Jockey Hartack delightedly admitted as he bounced off rose-garnished Iron Liege. "This son of a gun can really...