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Died. Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Admiral Lord Mountevans, 75, British Royal Navy hero, whose exploits dot the high seas from England to China, author of sea-adventure stories (Pirate's Doom); in Golaa, Norway. Evans commanded the famed destroyer Broke (in 1917), which torpedoed one German raider, rammed a second and vanquished its cutlass-armed boarding party in old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat...
Airman series, circa 1927, or the Wills Sainte Claire Gray Goose, last seen in 1928. Your advance notices of what 1958 has in store doom me to continuing disappointment...
...Judiciary Committee chairman, Mississippi's James O. Eastland, and his Senate civil-rights bill guaranteeing trial by jury. Even if successful, this strategy could hardly bypass the Senate's proud penchant for unlimited debate. Probable outcome: more Southern oratory and a full-dess Senate filibuster that could doom civil-rights legislation for still another session...
...first place in opera, and he succeeded magnificently. The work is studded with lovely arias bathed in richly hued orchestration. The musical theme that runs through the opera is the broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag the horse into the city; then brassily as they arrive at Carthage; and again with a touch of moody irony as they board the ships for "Roma, Roma, city eternal...
...Their priest begs lentils from door to door. On the Feast of St. Francis, the townspeople leave a hoarded egg white and the thistly cardoon as an offering. As Novelist Rimanelli spells it out, America with its fabulous giobbe (jobs) offers the one hope of earthly release from a doom of sweat, petty theft, envy, slander. For peasant poverty here has not made for nobility of soul-these people are tougher than the brass-hearted Normans of De Maupassant. Unlike the Irish who made a myth and a song of economic despair, these Mediterranean realists can only make brutal gestures...