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...company with a great many other readers of TIME, I was amazed and dismayed that there was not even a mention of the sudden and dramatic death of James Boyd in the service of his country...
Early one afternoon last week the tiny, lush Republic of El Salvador (pop. 1,829,000) burst into sudden uproar. Rebels led by Colonel Tito Calvo seized the telephone exchange of the capital city (San Salvador), invaded two radio stations and broadcast the premature news that the Government had fallen. Many army units joined them. Most of the air force joined up, bombed the city. By night the rebels held nearly all of the capital except police headquarters and the fortress of El Zapote...
...Belle's mission takes its crew among prodigious scenes which have seldom been so well recorded. Even the take-off into the mild sunlight has grandeur. As the swift ground shrivels into easy, floating legibility, cinemaddicts feel that sudden magical suction in the midriff which the actual experience brings. Climax of this effect: a magnificent close-up of the landing gear as it retracts, flattening like the feet of a bird in flight, and disclosing the countryside. Technicolor comes fully into its own when the Belle and the planes of her formation climb steadily over the North Sea, striating...
...Siqueiros denied that he was implicated, as some Cuban and Mexican newspapers charged, in the sudden death (from an overdose of cocaine) of a Cuban girl in the house of a multimillionaire where the artist was painting murals...
...strength of Hervey Allen's fiction is in its pageantry, the broad sweep of forest, river and mountains, with details piled on in careless abundance, and with sudden spirited scenes of violence lighting up in dividual characters with a brief intense flash. Often the situations are operatic, with the posturings and awkwardnesses of opera. But at moments they give way to a clarity of scene and character vivid as one of the Indian villages Captain Jack's paleface braves come upon suddenly in the woods. The total effect is epic and dis orderly. But so was the frontier...