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...that seven years ago took both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Award, made the reputations of Gene Kelly and William Bendix and the fortune of William Saroyan. With Julie Haydon the only holdover from the original cast, it's still a very good play. Characters like the Arab and Nick and McCarthy are indestructible, even on the borscht circuit. Regardless of who asks it, "Did you ever fall in love with a 39 pound midget?" will always be a funny line...
Local police quavered impotently as gangs overran the town, stoned, knifed and clubbed Europeans and non-Tudeh Persians, and pillaged and wrecked their homes. Then, at the riot's height, a band of 400 desert pirates crossed the muddy Shattel-Arab, raided the bazaar section and fled back across the river with their loot...
Heads Off. Promptly Iranians forgot their anti-British grievances. For the rest of the night they ranged the streets bent on murdering their age-old enemies, the Arabs. Wealthy, pro-British Hussein Gazi, local Arab leader, was clubbed to the pavement, then beheaded on the spot. Sheik Hadji Haddat and his wife were snatched from their car and burned alive in a bakery oven...
Rehearsal for Trouble. Arab spokesmen said they would not sit with Jews. In Palestine, they had instituted a boycott against Jewish merchants, with heavy fines for noncompliance. In New York, Arabs began moving to put the Palestine question on the agenda of the September meeting of U.N.'s General Assembly (in which the Arab states have five votes). That might well be the point at which Russia enters the game as the champion of Islam, a role Moscow has been quietly rehearsing for the past two years...
Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). "What is the Best Solution to the Palestine Problem?" Speakers: Carl Herman Voss, executive secretary of the Christian Council on Palestine; Cecil Hourani, secretary of the Arab Office; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, ex-president of the Zionist Organization of America; Mrs. Bedia Afnan, former Iraq educator...