Chaplin

March, 1960

ChaplinHigh on the List of America's Pet Hates is a man who, over a thirty-year period, gave this nation -- and every other nation in the world -- a gift valuable beyond price and beyond estimation, the most desirable and most difficult to receive: the imperishable gift of joy.There was a time when Charlie Chaplin's name was a synonym for happiness. Now, and inevitably, it is a symbol of hatred and a monument -- as if we needed one -- to humanity's eternal and passionate ingratitude. Chaplin spe...