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Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, Labor's Health Minister, was in a reminiscent mood last week. But memories of a poverty-haunted childhood in Tredegar, South Wales, left the Minister of Health far from mellow. "No amount of cajolery and no attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting...
Héctor Poleo seems much too young and much too miserable to be Venezuela's best-known artist. He has been miserable most of his life, and looks old before his time. The son of a Caracas furniture maker, he was a moody boy, blinded in one eye...
Meanwhile the memory of Jan Masaryk still haunted Czechoslovakia. Persistent rumors whispered that Masaryk had been murdered. In Washington, Juray Slavik, former Czech ambassador to the U.S., said that Masaryk had been bludgeoned to death (after he had shot two of his assailants) and that after death his body had...
On the 99th lap, Duke pulled his Novi Special into the pits for a scheduled fuel stop. As compressed nitrogen blew fuel from a drum into his tank, the precious seconds ticked away. Before his tank was full, Duke roared back into the race. About 86 laps later, while battling...
Much of the writing is dated. The gloomy opening scenes of Desire Under the Elms read like a Ring Lardner parody of Russian drama. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge seems a more imaginative creation 20 years after publication; but he also seems as unreal as the specters...