European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 07, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Bridge on the River kwai earned William Holden $500,000 Over 10 years. Holden goes Back to War by Rebecca Morehouse Nana staff writer m War has never looked so Gulyas it does today never have so Many marched and preached and pick eted for peace. Why then another War picture William Holden Star of the Devil s brigade had some answers. War films Are usually successful he said. If they re Good they re considered memorable. All quiet on the Western front was a War picture yet it made a statement for peace. Nobody Ever knows what it costs to win a Battle. In our film you see what it Costco take one italian Mountaintop from the germans in world War any journalist who wanted to talk to Holden had first to attend a screen ing of the film which ends on this Battle. It is a shocking Bloodbath an orgy of violence cubed squared and nth powered. They re the bloodiest scenes i Ever saw on the screen on writer told Holden. Really he said. I Haven t seen the the Devil s brigade was made i Utah Hollywood Italy and England. It follows the world War ii years of . Later Gen Robert t. Frederick who trained and commanded the 1stspecial service Force made up of Amer ican and Canadian troops. Holden por trays Frederick. I d really like to do a Good love Story again i Don t mind them but they re hard to find said Holden. The Bridges at Toko i which 1 made with Grace Kelly had a deep lying romantic theme and it seemed to touch women everywhere. My next film won t be romantic either. It s a period Western the wild Bunch and Well make stat Durango Holden s Charm and Schoolboy smile Are intact and he looked Iii. He came Here direct from Kenya where he spends six months of the year. Be is a louder of the it. Kenya safari club and he owns a 1,310acre game ranch on it. Kenya s South Ern slope. In june he will return to Africa to make the first of several film documentaries for David l. William Beedle in o Fallon 111., Holden grew up in Pasadena and mad hits screen debut in 1938, playing the violinist prizefighter in Golden now has wide business interests an electronics firm in Japan a radio Sta Tion in Hong Kong property in Europe. Switzerland is my Home base now he said but we have a Home in Palm Springs that serves As a meeting place for the family we had a big family reunion there at Christmas. The children two sons and a daughter ail grown live in the United states Andy wife Frenda Marshall is Here now but she will return to Deap dear Ann Landers our 17-year-old son Larry wants to Wear his hair longer than his father thinks he should. For years his father used to Cuttle boy s hair but lately hair Cut time has produced such terrible fights that my Hus band has told the boy he will not Cut his hair anymore hell have to go to a Barberan pay for his haircuts out of his allowance. 1 had a private talk with Larry and he told me he hates to be different from the other boys at school. He says Short haircuts Are considered Square and that s All there to to it. He made it Clear he does not want to Wear his hair so Long that his ears Are covered up Buthe does like Bangs which i think Are frightful and he also likes a full look in the Back. Ann 1 am so sick and tired of listening to my son and his father argue about hair could scream. Several of my friends Tell me they Are hav ing the same trouble. Please once and for All Settle this i your column. Do you think a boy s haircut is important enough to fight about Day and night do you think parents Page 14 have the right to insist that teen age son Wear his hair the Way they think he should i you would devote a few Para graphs to this subject parents of teen agers All Over the country would bless you. Beside myself dear a hair has become one of the most passionately argued subjects of our time ranking third after Vietnam and the race riots. I have received thousands of letters from Anchorage to Austin letters from distraught Fath ers exhausted mothers an embattled teen agers. Some readers have sent photographs front and Back and asked do you think this is too Long i believe the male teen age craze for Long hair is rooted Ina the desire to look like the other Guys and b rebellion against parents society or whatever they happen o be fighting. The length of the boy s hair is a Good Means of measuring a boy s rebellious Ness. The kid who wears his hair so Long that he attracts stares from strangers a say ing see nobody can Tell me what to do if your son fits this description i recommend the Fol lowing keep quiet about his hair. Make it Clear he can Wear big hair in Bangs Down to his nose and braids to his shoulders if he wants to but he must give it a weekly Sham poo. Also let him know if he gets in trouble with the school authorities because of his hair it will be his trouble and not yours. Schools not Only have the right but the obligation to set standards and make schools ignore hair other schools have specific regulations. If the boy is told to Cut his hair or not comeback it must be his decision and he must accept the con sequence to. Personally i wish the Crew Cut would hurry Back. It s neater and cleaner. But the style today is longer hair and mos kids want to be in Day if you Stop Bug Ging him your teen age so will Cut Bis hair but it has to be his idea and not that Day comes you will know that your boy has Madean Ira potent step in the Transi Tion from adolescence. Copyright 1908. Publ Lifieri Hall Syndicate the stars and stripes editor White orientated society concerning your article on riots not War main us Isshak wherein these smug White civilians who have Nusic Man a handsome profit from the hard work of Many Nevern would have the Gall to say do they want everything in Silver Platter this is in effect what to gets by virtue of fact that he is White living in a White oriented society we Are not concerned too much with the past situation Mour forefathers except from the standpoint of Clearing us the myths of our having existed Only in slavery times As is referred to by most negroes. Even in my Short 24 pc irs have suffered the abuses caused by our society having boo White oriented. Yes even in the army. Many jobs Are still assigned to you by virtue of the fact hat you Are a negro who is not supposed to have intelligence enough to do an thins but manual labor. It is marvelous situation when one is getting the advantage Sand have Only an outsider s viewpoint of the situation but Lei him get information spread around that he has a drop of negro blood. And see How much his business drops off or How much his reputation will stagger. Theory and practice have always been two different things in the . The ghettos were formulated by the White Power Structure Inan attempt to isolate the negro in a specific sector of town and regardless of the taxes he paid his garbage was not collected regularly nor his streets cleaned if they had prodded the City enough to get the streets paved to begin with no people love living in the Gutter but if you won t let them get jobs because they Are Black or won t sell them specific areas of property because they Are Black then what Are they supposed to do spec. 4 James e. Cotlow Baum older German editor s note the writer refers to an associated pres Story from Washington based on a Survey or comments by some 50 congressmen returning to the Capitol after an easter Vaca Tion among their constituents. One northeastern congressman is quoted As saying the Man on the Street in the Gas Sta Tion who normally does t speak out was saying about negroes do they want everything on a Silver Platter " on reply to biased charges reference is made to the letters to the editor column of the tuesday april 30, Issue of the stars and stripes in which in response to charges of biased reporting you As managing editor made the incredible statement the new York times must certainly be the most objective newspaper in existence. No Hin of its editorial policy can be gleaned from Reading the news the making of such a statement by the managing editor o the stars and stripes confirms better than an outright admission the truth of the allegations contained in the letters by pfc Leslie Mbrown capt. David a Meroney and or. G. A Wunderlich since it could Only be made by one who either has never read the new York times or is a doctrinaire left Wing Liberal. The slanting of the news pages to fit the left Wing and occasionally near treasonous editorial positions of the new York times have been Well documented on Many occasions bythe conservative Magazine the National review a journal which i suggest you could read with some profit.1 will be looking Forward with interest to see whether you will publish this correction concerning your editor s note or will you follow the established custom of your Ideal newspaper the new York times and suppress it maj. William r. Mullins Mannheim Germany managing editor s note we have taken the Liberty o forwarding a copy of your letter to the editor of the times to see if he has any comment. We will pass along his reply. No statistics or Pov damage claims to set the record straight some time ago the stars and stripes ran an article by staff writer Bill Neal and entitled Mats says car damage percentage is an Mats official was repo Tedas saying that Only 60 damage claims were filed by . Service personnel in the shipments of More than 45,000 privately owned vehicles which either arrived at Bremerhaven or were returned to the . Through that port during a period of 15 wish to report that our records reflect that 117 claims in Law amount of $11,493.91 were filed during this same 15-month Periodate Ramstein air base alone for damage to and or pilferage of items from pos shipped from conus to above figures exclude numerous Pov damage claims few during this time in amounts Jess than $25. Coic claims office editor s note the commenia you a age claims Are valid. The Story referred to which appeared the stars and stripes last november was misleading that the figures provided by military authorities in Brenner Haven included Only those claims made at the port there. Vwe have been trying to publish a definitive Story on Fin damage claims but have been stymied by the fact that no consolidated figures Are kept anywhere in the world. ,. ,., damage claims Are eventually Cut from units to the army claims Servic at it. Ool Ablel md., commanding officer col. Thomas c. Marmon advises us As follows pox claims filed throughout the world eventually arrive at this office which is responsible for their supervision Ano payment. However Pov claim Are ao4 treated apart from a muss of other claims resulting from loss of personal proper from such causes us fire theft Accident Etc tuesday May 7, 1968
