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According to his friend J. B. Priestley, who has written a couple of plays for him (Cornelius, Johnson Over Jordan), Actor Richardson could have been equally as successful as a painter or a writer if he had put his far-better-than-average-actor's mind...
...Jordan Hall they opened the evening with Mendelssohn's Quartet in E-flat Major, which even the most fervent Romanticist must realize is among fervent Romanticist must realize is among Mendelssohn's lesser works. Written at an early age, (Opus 12), it could only have been picked of the Quartet because of its opportunities for technical virtuosity. In deed, Cellist Mischa Schneider, perhaps the most impressive of he four, makes the most of his opportunity. The second movement, a Canzonetta, provides him with a superlative vehicle for pizzicato and upper register proficiency. Violist Boris Kroyt gets his chance to highlight...
...burden of the Middle East was still Britain's. Leftwingers came up with a suggestion likely to appeal to TVA-minded Americans: a Jordan Valley Authority which would irrigate thousands of now-arid acres, make possible development of light industries, enable Palestine to enlarge its population...
...years between Jesus' visit to the temple, where His questioning astounded learned men, to His baptism in the Jordan, little is known. Dr. Erskine speculates: "Whether, as some people would like to believe, he ever married and had a son, is an irrelevant question. What is pertinent is his capacity for love and his genius for parenthood. . . . It seems to me clearly indicated in all the meetings of Jesus with women who were not his relatives that somewhere in his life, in some episode of which we are told nothing, a woman had hurt him deeply...
...imperialist London Daily Mail makes a practice of yelling bloody murder about U.S. interests encroaching on British trade. Last week, over the by-line of able Correspondent Philip Jordan, the Mail front-paged a red-hot story: "An offer of one million pounds a year is reported to have been made by CBS for the right to exploit Luxembourg Radio. . . . I understand that Colonel William Paley, head of CBS, has recently taken time off from his duties as chief of the Psychological Warfare Radio Unit to negotiate the deal with the Luxembourg Government...