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...Paisan," which is a series of six unconnected episodes tracing the Allied advance through Italy, set in the of the Po River. The other episodes, while sometimes over-sentimental, are also memorable. "Open City" is a tense account of the underground movement in Rome, but more than that it is the story of a man's willingness to undergo torture for his ideals...
...Most celebrated was Su Tung Po (1036-1101), who was exiled for three years to Hainan. Poet, painter, engineer and herbalist, Su fought against the state socialism of Premier Wang An-shih, who favored government monopoly of retail and wholesale trade, government control of transport (horses) and credit (loans to farmers). After eight years, Wang's statism reduced China to economic and political chaos...
...Timers. First, to demonstrate that new music is not beyond oldsters, they sent Virgil Thomson's dissonant Seine at Night flowing down the corridors -and the brasses got their chance to show they still had both wind and beauty of tone. In Chausson's Poème, with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci as guest soloist, the strings got to prove that they improve with age, like a fine old Stradivarius. By the time they had wound up the concert with a powerful performance of Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, with everybody bowing and blowing their best together...
When Herman Hickman lets his "Po" L'il Boys" loose in the Bowl tomorrow, the big ones will all be there, sprinting into the Crimson backfield with cavalier disregard for the crippling injuries the received this week...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Poems of Li Po...