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Son of a Wallace, Mich. Lutheran minister, Carl Lindstrom aspired to be a concert pianist, gave that up as a boy when a dislocation permanently stiffened one arm. He left Beloit College for economic reasons, after one year, wandered through jobs on small-town papers to the Hartford Times in...
The Oriental spell extends beyond Miyoshi and Pat. Wilbur, the stern-eyed stage-door guard, feels that the Oriental chorus girls are politer and less brassy than the usual types; the director and the choreographer feel that the whole cast is more disciplined and quicker to learn. Says Oscar Hammerstein...
TO hell with you and your money!" is what St. Peter said to Simon the magician when he offered to pay the Apostles for the gift of conferring the Holy Spirit. This, at least, is the rendering that a new translation of the New Testament gives to the words the...
Last week Tokyo's largest private art gallery, the Bridgestone, owned by Western Art Collector Shojiro Ishibashi (whose name translates into stone bridge), was displaying 38 figures, one of the largest Haniwa exhibits ever held. Among the prize examples from private and public collections all over Japan were seven...
The Russians made good use of the West in their all-out effort to surpass the West. The academy's All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, which Nesmeyanov founded in 1953, publishes, 48 times a year, a periodical of abstracts of major scientific papers from all over...