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...novice usherette from Radcliffe was on duty taking tickets for the H.D.C. at Sanders Theatre last night. A gentleman and his wife appeared and the girl duly tore his tickets in two. As she looked at his stubs to tell him where to go she tensed, and called the House Manager. Investigation revealed that the gentleman had made an error in dates. His season's tickets to the Boston Symphony had been torn to bits...
...Lattre's target was Communist stronghold Choben, lying in a gap between rugged, razorback mountain ranges 30 miles southwest of Hanoi, through which runs Route Coloniale No. 21. Slow-flying Junkers transports, trailing hooks, tore up Communist telephone lines, so that aid could not be summoned. Heavy artillery, brought up under cover of night to the base of the mountains, began hammering enemy strongpoints. Now, with roads and all vital bridges on the approaches to Choben in Commando hands, the French field commander, Three-Star General Gonzales de Linares, sent in tanks and infantry...
...inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed her to a mast for safety, but a moment later the wind tore her loose, and she was washed away...
...would accept such a scheme remained to be seen. But Mossadegh showed willingness to stay on in Washington to negotiate, and Anthony Eden, in his first act as Foreign Secretary, called home Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd from Teheran to talk things over. In Teheran, after the British elections, crowds tore down the street signs on Churchill Avenue. The government ordered them back up, and blamed the whole thing on the outlawed Communist Tudeh Party...
...five years ago. It was to be a spoofing treatment of Verdi's // Trovatore (Verdi's subtitle: "The Gypsy's Revenge"). But two years ago, she heard a rousing performance of Trovatore by the Metropolitan Opera, and "the first thing I knew, I was crying." She tore up her burlesque and designed a "serious" ballet, full of dramatic fire and intensity. In reducing Verdi's tortuously complicated, four-act opera to 52 minutes of dance, she "left out enough good music and plot to make three more ballets," but made the story of a gypsy...