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Hobson's Choice (London Films; United Artists) is a cheerful little slice of death, warmed over and served with some lively comic sauces by Producer-Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great...
...does most of his thinking about these while others sleep. He gets up as early as 3:30 a.m., brews himself a pot of coffee and sits for hours, thinking and listening to the Rev. W. E. Hawkins, a fundamentalist preacher on Dallas' Station KRLD. After breakfast (a slice of melon or a bottle of Coke) he drives himself to work in a 1953 Ford. He works in shirtsleeves with no tie, throws papers that he wants filed on the carpeted floor...
Dogs & Cats. At dinner parties-where he may nibble nothing but the lemon slice on a filet-Bidault sometimes amuses himself by classifying each guest as "dog" or "cat." He insists he is "dog," but many others-including Madame Bidault-would classify Georges Bidault as "cat." He has a catlike walk, a heavy-lidded, sleepy, catlike look, and a catlike smile. In politics and diplomacy he walks fences with a cat's tread, pounces like a tiger on a succulent opportunity...
...Roaring Lions. At his usual corner table in the Carroll Arms Hotel, during the luncheon recess, McCarthy gulped down a Manhattan, a slice of lamb and coffee. His suit coat was off, his shirt clung to him, soaked through. The going had been hot & heavy, and there was more, much more, to come...
Last year, when the seven House masters decided to slice out "entries" in the original of the plush Mt. Auburn street apartments, there were cries of "stigma, stigma." But now, the revolution seems complete. National Scholars open their mail where probationary students once trod; football players use the elevator that hauled the scions of the Gold Coast; average students joke about the resplendence that was, and the stigma that is gone...