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Spyros Skouras, who as boss of 20th Century-Fox from 1942 to 1962 brought out such sagas as Lifeboat and Titanic, last week took the lead in another kind of sea drama. At a Washington press conference, the 72-year-old argonaut announced that the Prudential Lines, a seven-ship...
Among others, Joe Palooka has survived 34 years as a world heavyweight boxing champion with nary a scar to show for it on his boyish face. Buck Rogers, the spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through...
A novel by Vienna's Heimito von Doderer is rather like an Eames chair draped with an antimacassar. In their opulent detail, his scenes suggest those leisurely Victorian sagas in which the reader can hardly see the plot for the potted ferns. Beneath the surface clutter, however, a psychological...
Producer Ross Hunter, who with Screen Writer Oscar Brodney has enriched the world (and Universal Pictures) with three Tammy sagas so far, promises more to come: "Give 'em what they want, I always say, until they don't want it any more." Perhaps the time has come for...
Schrade attacked Wagner for claiming to be the agent of fate and thereby "forsaking all that music as an art had ever been." He condemned Wagner for changing myth to fit his artistic purposes. The composer "even presumed to be a maker of myth" and turned his music dramas from...