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Composer Monteverdi's Vespers and Magnificat, which includes ten of his 70-odd sacred works, begins with a stately blaring of trumpets and trombones, suddenly quiets to let a Latin choral pianissimo float sweetly through the air. In the movements that follow, Monteverdi sings the praises of God; sometimes...
Van Heflin as the hard-working homesteader, Jean Arthur as his wife and Brandon de Wilde as their young son who idolizes Shane, make the most of their roles. As hard-riding, straight-shooting Shane, Alan Ladd is the personification of 11 strong silent western heroes. He is larger than...
"Boy, I'm Hurt!" At 2 a.m., two Chinese companies began attacking U.N. positions on the muddy, jagged slopes of "Little Gibraltar." Mortars and artillery pounded U.N. lines. At 4 a.m., Stanley and twelve other men from the 9th Infantry Regiment were sent crawling up Little Gibraltar, looking for...
Polar Bear Erect. Stalin was a small, unhandsome man. Visitors were always surprised he was so short, guessed his height at 5 ft. 4 in., his weight from 150 Ibs. to 190 Ibs. His complexion was swarthy, sometimes yellowish, and his face was lightly pitted from a childhood smallpox. His...
Their smoky, orange-red torches of bamboo and pitch balls reflected off the somber, jagged ruins, dusty brick and grimy concrete of windowless, crumbling buildings along the line of march. It said much for a stouthearted people, the pride they had found in their new, battle-tested armies and the...