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Jean Babilée is a dancer U.S. balletomanes have been hearing about, in brief flashes from Paris, since the end of the war. The first flash was that he could leap as no one since Nijinsky. Then came a tale of an astonishing physical feat: in Jean Cocteau's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), Babilée hung by his neck on a gallows for a full minute, with no more extra support than he could get from wrapping one arm around a pillar...
...youth, Department Chairman Joshua Whatmough sought to learn a new language every summer to feed his interest in comparative philology. Few present-day concentrators try to duplicate this feat, but it would not be a bad idea, considering the knowledge of language needed for concentration in this field...
Miracle look artless and crude. Director Jean (Symphonic Pastorale) Delannoy can also take credit for the rare cinematic feat of evoking deep religious feeling without sugar & molasses. His constant perception of the story's human values, and Actor Fresnay's superbly sensitive playing make God Needs Men the best foreign-language film to reach the U.S. in at least a year...
...Committee on Education, which held a calm and intelligent hearing on H. 743, (a remarkable feat considering the topic), can hardly miss these drawbacks. Although it cannot pigeonhole H. 743, the Committee could do much to cut short the legislature's unwholesome parade by reporting this McCarthy-Dorgan bill unfavorably...
...hearing the big, plain, healthy voice of "Patti Page." Three of her records, Tennessee Waltz, Would 1 Love You and Mockin' Bird Hill, are among the top eleven on the hit parade; since its release last fall, her Tennessee Waltz has sold some 2,300,000 copies-a feat which has won her a gold medal with a diamond in it from grateful Mercury Records...