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Last week the finalists gathered in the plush auditorium of the Palais des Beaux Arts under the careful scrutiny of 13 solemn-faced judges and the motherly gaze of Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, 78, patron of the Concours. Only one of five Americans, Philadelphia-born Berl Senofsky, 30, had survived the preliminaries ; all the Russians had made it. Senofsky, whose parents were born in the Ukraine, had studied at Juilliard, spent a hitch in the Army before becoming assistant concertmaster of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra five years ago. Dissatisfied with his progress, he quit his job, flew to Europe...
Analyze Yourself first snorkeled in Britain about 20 years ago, looking like a jolly parlor game for rainy nights. "Adapted" for U.S. consumption by Editor Victor Rosen, the book still has an air of semi-solemn fun-with-Freud and what-every-Jung-man-should-know. Moreover, its prose is so plain that a roomful of safecrackers and their molls might well while away the hours before the gelignite goes up by browsing through the work. Its most startling feature is a questionnaire jig-sawed by Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold...
...Creator." Answered Harry Lawrence, leader of the Opposition in Cape Province: "I resent the implication that there is a partnership between God and Strydom-and that Strydom is the senior partner." British South Africans, most of whom stood by indifferently while the Nationalists suppressed the blacks, rose in solemn wrath now that their own liberties were threatened. In the sugar-growing coastal province -of Natal, where the British .outnumber the Boers by better than three to one, ther'e was talk of secession. But the opposition that counted most arose where it was least expected: among the Boers themselves...
...wives gathered in a tent colony on the banks of the sacred Gomati. Fifty-one saffron-robed priests lit a sacrificial fire in their midst, blew conch shells and chanted mantras before a large statue of Gauri, wife of the Lord Shiva, god of creation and destruction. Then, in solemn silence, the husbands and wives bathed in the river and sat down in pairs, face to face. Basing their action on Lord Krishna's scriptures, the wives washed their husbands' feet and drank a few drops of the washing water. They made floral offerings to their husbands...
...retailers see no reason why the Davy Crockett boom should not keep growing at least until Christmas. Intoned a solemn Detroit buyer: "Why, Davy Crockett is bigger even than Mickey Mouse...