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...frescoes and painted wood altar fronts have been moved into museums at Vich and Barcelona to stop further deterioration and to permit careful studies by art scholars. The best that is left of this all but forgotten chapter from the past has now been reproduced in oversized format (18 in. by 13 in.) in Spain, Romanesque Paintings, published by the New York Graphic Society ($16.50) as part of the UNESCO World Art Series...
...Mansfield's bedipitus. Other dewatermelonization steps: ¶ reprint of a radio essay by CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid reflecting on the recent sad decline of quality in the Herald Tribune, and his hopes for a return to its "old heritage." ¶ A well-pruned letters column in a freshened format that substitutes breeze for wind. ¶ "They Say" an occasional skimming of notable quotes in the news. ¶ "Curmudgeon's Corner" a space to be periodically opened to outraged or outrageous comment...
Since the editors of the Advocate have changed their format by de-emphasizing the biographical notes about contributors, the new Advocate reader will not receive the usual warning of "Mother Advocate welcomes to her bosom." However, the reader will probably be stopped by the first story in the issue, John Mautner's An Enchantment, which very likely will not produce that effect in the reader. The story, as well as its component parts, partakes of a diarrheic length. If the author is interested in attracting readers, he should take the advice he offers almost midway through the story... "but enough...
...play ever produced. Though it was a disappointing debut ("A number of those English accents are so phony, you know," explains Ritchard), the balance of the first week's plays bore out the host's claim to a "varied diet" of entertainment. "The show has no rigid format," says Ritchard, "for there is always an audience for anything provocative, intelligent...
...turned the trick in 1947 over Los Angeles station KTLA, and Pantomime Quiz has been on and off TV ever since. There have been few changes in format. M.C. Stokey hands out actable "stumpers" (e.g., "Hand your teeth to me, grandma, I'm putting the bite on a friend") to competing four-man teams, each made up of two name actors and two pretty actresses. The player who gets the stumper acts it out with passion and abandon while his three teammates have only two minutes to supply the words. Stokey has speeded up the game with the invention...