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...huge round of applause as he rattled off the Indian names, continued: "I am particularly sensitive to the great honor you have done me . . . asking as your guest one belonging to the profession [Army] that in years past was your enemy . . . Out of the stories that surrounded that epic campaign, boys of my time found their heroes. Now my own heroes were on the side that my own Army was then calling enemies-Red Cloud, Chief Dog, Rain in the Face, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Crazy Horse, Geronimo ..." Tom-toms sounded as Ike named the chiefs...
Author Guthrie's novel is an epic saga of the hardy men who discovered a wilderness before the covered wagon came. The picture cuts down the novel's size and scope and tones down its realism, imposing a happy ending on the tragic love story of Boone and Teal Eye. But. for all its hemmed-in dramatic horizons, The Big Sky frequently has an easy naturalism, as if the camera and sound track were eavesdropping on the actors. Credit goes to Director Howard (Red River) Hawks...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was a shy, epileptic quadroon and Brazil's greatest man of letters: his collected works fill 31 volumes, and range from drama and epic poetry to novels and short stories. Except for a few of his short stories, nobody had ever bothered to translate Machado into English until William L. Grossman, a New York University economics professor, ran across his writings during a 1948 teaching stint in Brazil. Grossman became so fascinated that he spent all his holidays translating one of Machado's best novels, Epitaph of a Small Winner...
...Skokholm Island Bird Observatory off Britain's Welsh coast, a pigeon-sized male Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus puffinus) was taking his tour of duty on the family nest last week, none the worse for an epic round-trip Atlantic crossing. A month before, Puffinus had been delivered to Rosario Mazzeo, staff manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an amateur ornithologist, who was flying back to the U.S. from a European visit. Next day, at Boston's Logan International Airport, Mazzeo released Puffinus from his cage, and launched him out over the water for the return flight...
Died. John Hall Paxton, 52, American consul at Isfahan, Iran, who in 1949 led a group of men, women & children in an epic, ten-week, 2,500-mile escape from Chinese Communists into India; of a coronary thrombosis, in Isfahan. Old China Hand Paxton, brought up in the Orient by missionary parents, was U.S. consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths...