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...engaging performance, even though his enunciation is about as good as that of a prizefighter swallowing his mouthpiece. Also excellent is Glenn Ford who plays the ineffectual (ex-humanities instructor) American captain assigned to bring the blessing of democracy to a village more interested is sitting in the pine grove to watch that evening sun go down and building a teahouse than in erecting the Government-prescribed pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. The teahouse wins out of course, art being the resultant of cultural conflict...
...survivors of Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 (492 dead) was a 21-year-old Coast Guardsman, Clifford A. Johnson. Third-degree burns covered 40% of his skin, second-degree burns 15% more. In three months, he was given 100 blood and plasma transfusions, while his weight dropped from 168 to 112 lbs. He got 18 skin grafts, became famous as the first victim of such severe burns to be saved by medical science. Last week, back in his native Midwest, Johnson was driving a truck near Jefferson City, Mo. He missed a turn, and his truck crashed...
THREEPENNY NOVEL (396 pp.)-Berfolt Brechf-Grove Press ($3.75; Paperbound...
...street shook as the Israelis opened their attack on the big police fort on the other side of town. It was another Israeli reprisal raid, the fourth in a month. This one was in retaliation for two Israeli farm hands whom Jordanian guerrilla raiders killed in an orange grove across from Kalkilya, lopping off their victims' ears as trophies...
Soon the girl, who was given the name of Yang Kwei Fei, was dressed in robes of finest silk, and sent to wait upon the emperor where he took his tea among the flowering plums. He took up his lute and made a hymn to the budding grove. The maiden, listening, was pierced to the heart by his music. She thought, "He must be seeking sincerity." That night she was sent to wait upon the emperor in his bedchamber. When he came to bed and saw her fresh and tender as a flowering branch, he staggered back. "Who sent...