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...quiet before dawn last week, a band of 400 dandelion-eating, political-minded peasants struck at the two-year rule of Greek Dictator General John Metaxas. They marched into the stony streets of Canea, ancient seaport and capital of Crete. At their head stepped former Minister of National Economy in the Athens Government, young Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Venizelos, and ex-Mayor Mountakis of Canea...
...watched the climbers through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white web. The third evening, the quartet that had started out as two competing teams joined ropes, stood lashed to the rock, 500 ft. from the top, waiting for dawn and the crawl to victory...
First Performance (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) of Misty Dawn by Cincinnati's John Castellini, played by Howard Barlow's orchestra...
...radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses of Do It Again: "You won't regret it ... [flutter of turning pages]. . . . Come and get it. . . ." Least whistleable, least inspired Gershwin item on the program was Dawn of a New Day, the "Official March" he wrote for the New York World's Fair...
...rackets together. At once his generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands in pockets, wondering bleakly what was to become of the rackets...