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...better way to get around the House Appropriations Committee, Maass suggested, would have been to eliminate its chairman, Rep. Otto Passman...
UNIVERSITY: Otto Preminger, having disfigured G. B. Shaw (you must remember his "Saint Joan" of several years back), how has a crack at history itself: and the result is a seldom-recognizable version of the Israeli struggle for independence from British stewardship and Arab hatred, called EXODUS -- after a novel of that name to which it also bears but slight resemblance. The cast is as large as the film is long; stars include Paul Newman, Eve Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb and (inevitably) Sal Mineo. Afternoons and evenings...
Seeing as Director Otto Preminger was in town anyway, the President of the U.S. invited him to dinner. But Preminger was fiercely busy, and he declined. John Kennedy understood, and he turned to questions of Berlin and the U.N. to pass the time. Next day he invited Preminger to lunch, and again he was turned down-heavy work schedule and all that. The President tried a third time. At last, Preminger gave in, and one day last week he joined Jack Kennedy for lunch...
...Senators in the movie adaptation of Advise and Consent, Otto Preminger tapped a film freshman whom the state of Arizona cast in the same role from 1912 to 1941: Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst, 87. No one, however, could fairly accuse Preminger of typecasting. "Five-Syllable Henry" Ashurst, now living in retirement in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, is admittedly the very model of an oldtime, wing-collared Senator. But in the Preminger movie, he will play a reticent, somnolent solon from Arkansas-a formidable frustration to a man who once described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano...
...choosing Scharf to succeed crusty Bishop Otto Dibelius last February as head of the Evangelical Church, the synod bore in mind his reputation for dealing with the Reds in a way that won their grudging respect. Said one top Communist official: "Give me Scharf rather than any other churchman. At least I understand what he wants." And in office Kurt Scharf has been uniquely free to attend church meetings across the border-even on occasion to go abroad, as he did for the enthronement of Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey as Archbishop of Canterbury...