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Shuddering millions may or may not recognize this nightmare as a remake of Boris Karloff's film classic, The Mummy. Whether they do or not, the sixth straight gals-and-ghouls movie (and 59th film) turned out by Britain's brash little Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is sure to be boffo all over the world. Last week Hammer's short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles...
Still, in the last "official" census among scholars for the most eminent composers of all time, Rossini tied with Benjamin Britten for 59th place; and that isn't doing badly at all. Certainly, one must grant that Rossini had a great talent for melody and for using the human voice superbly (he was a fine professional singer himself). He also knew how to score well for orchestra; no other work of Rossini is orchestrated with such elegance and nuance as Ory. And the bedroom trio in Act II is inspired writing of the first order; Berlioz was quite right...
...59th triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church wound up two weeks in Miami with a 2,500-word pastoral letter from the House of Bishops that will be read in each of the 7,290 Episcopal churches in the U.S. The bishops set forth what they called five great truths. Perhaps the most significant point, backed by a separate resolution urging compliance with the Supreme Court decision on integration in public schools, concerned justice in racial matters...
...Philadelphia's Robin Roberts, 31, gave up the inevitable homerun ball but was in top form otherwise, set the Cubs down on three hits to win 3-1, became the 59th major-leaguer to win 200 games (others still active: the Braves' Warren Spahn, the White Sox's Early Wynn), turned his thoughts hopefully to 300 victories: "If I can keep on pitching the way I have, I might make...
...59th precinct of the 13th ward is accurately known as "Little Lithuania." Its voters know what it means to be ground under the heel of Russian oppression. Ike won the precinct by 53.3% in 1952. This time he took...