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Tonight in Samarkand (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr.) takes its theme from the famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because...
...values, partly from having its outcome foreordained, in time starts dragging its feet. A third stanza of Have a Rendezvous with Death seems excessive particularly as the chink in the final marriage's armor against fate is pretty easy to spot. For a lady who keeps late-dating doom, two earlier-in-the-evening admirers are quite enough...
...Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien. A fantasy about a hobbit who grows out of his tweens to fight Ores, Balrogs and Barrow-wights before he takes on the Cracks of Doom (TIME...
...this." Last week Recce's committee published the results of its work, along with an angry dissent by the committee's two Democrats, Ohio's Wayne Hays and Idaho's Gracie Pfost. The committee's conclusions, said the Democrats, "was, like the theme of doom in a tragic opera, revealed in its prelude...
Only hours before its death sentence was to be carried out last week, the little town of Follansbee, W.Va. got a reprieve-and then a full pardon. Follansbee's doom seemed to be sealed by the deal under which Promoter Frederick W. Richmond would buy out the town's major employer, Follansbee Steel Corp., and sell the mill and inventories to Republic Steel Corp. for dismantling and shipment down South (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 8). At the last minute, Federal District Judge Herbert S. Boreman stepped in. He declared last week that the Follansbee stockholders vote approving...