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...gradually, smoothly warm up to entrancing modernity. All of the movements seem to weave Tartini's melodies serenely for a while, then get involved in the implications of their own patterns; at other times the old tunes appear in a kind of bas-relief against a background of alien dissonance. A fascinating composition...
Russia wanted to be paid well for its 24 days' action against Japan in World War II. Japan must make no military alliances, e.g., with the U.S., directed against any of her former enemies, e.g., the U.S.S.R. Neither party would permit alien navies in the Sea of Japan. Since most of the Japanese navy is at the bottom of the ocean, this would make the waters between Japan and Korea a Russian lake...
...fight to escape deportation to his native Argentina, Crooner Dick Haymes at last won a big round. A federal judge ruled that Hawaii is "a geographical part" of the U.S., thus Alien Haymes did not re-enter the U.S. illegally after a visit to Honolulu in 1953, when he was wooing his present, fourth wife, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth. The harassed Haymeses, however, had only a brief surcease of sorrow. Two days later, bad news broke: Columbia studios had sued Rita for default on a $17,844 note she signed last December. Day after that, the Justice Department, still determined...
...lived about 500 B.C., the only Etruscan artist whose name has come down. A head of Hermes, perhaps his masterpiece, is so good that classic scholars once thought it must be Greek. But its smiling features, looking out on a benevolent world with a typically Etruscan expression, are alien both to Roman sternness and Greek idealized classicism. More than anything else, it was this carefree attitude toward life as well as death that gave the Etruscan works their unexpected appeal. Rather than visiting a dead civilization, visitors to the show felt that they were meeting a people not unlike modern...
...gallops back to the family ranch, jilts his girl, demands his inheritance from his patriarchal father (Walter Hampden), and hits the trail for Damascus, lusting after alien goddesses...