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...bettered the New York Times's description of James Fisk Jr.: "First in war, first in peace and first in the pockets of his countrymen." Financier Fisk sacrificed the flower of his youth to selling mildewed blankets to the Union Army and smuggling Confederate cotton into the mills of his native Vermont. When peace came, he was rich enough to buy a directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler...
...Flower Drum Song. A routine but expertly guided tour, conducted by Rodgers and Hammerstein, of San Francisco's Chinatown. Among the three-star sights: Singers Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...
Items: "Lack of emotional warmth, closeness, love and enjoyment of life"; in his own life he treated love like a flower pressed in a book, "an object of science, but . . . dry and sterile." Most startling: "Freud, the great spokesman for sex, was altogether a typical puritan. To him, the aim of life for a civilized person was to suppress his emotional and sexual impulses." And from Freud's own pen is a clear statement that even within a supposedly ideal marriage his sex life was over when...
...doom-dappled lighting, Laurence Rosenthal's eerily instrumented score, Oliver Messel's turntable forest of disenchantment. Apart from a U.N.-like babel of accents, the brilliant cast often achieves a triumph of mime over matter. Radiant, in white kimono, as netted moonlight, Claire Bloom is part lotus flower, part flower of evil. Noel Willman's samurai is a bred-in-the-bone aristocrat, and Rod Steiger's bandit a bite-to-the-bone outlaw...
...tells of a banquet and ball given by the nautical-minded British ambassador on a log raft in Belgrade's Sava River. It is a superb affair until the raft slips its moorings and makes a break for the Danube. Passing under Belgrade castle, the soused "Flower of European Diplomacy" is spotted by Comrade-Gunner Popovic, who takes the diplomats for hostile Czech paratroopers. Hoping to distinguish himself, possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon and rips the log-riding diplomats...