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...Hale Harkness, who died in 1954. Mrs. Harkness, who by family request retired as a dancer at 19, has long made her summer home at Watch Hill, R.I., a workshop for ballet experiments. Until 1964, its showpiece was Robert Jeffrey's troupe (TIME, Oct. 6), which she cut adrift when her new company was formed...
...panoramas are meant to show the effluvia that will float past the porthole or radar screens of future capsules en route to distant galaxies. In Radar #V, he covers the view with a layer of colored Plexiglas partly because it creates a bloodcurdlingly realistic mood of objects adrift on an uncharted sea. Van Hoeydonck maintains that he is not trying to frighten people. "All I'm trying to do," he says, "is be a kind of reporter of the future...
Poet, a late and lesser play of O'Neill's, is a sort of Iceman Crumbleth set in 1828. The Irish emigrant hero is an impoverished Massachusetts tavern keeper adrift on booze and Byronism, who rages at wife, daughter (Jeanne Hepple) and creation. Actor Denholm Elliott buries the poet in a rubble of rant, and the cast mouths more different brogues than there are counties in Ireland. As for Noel Coward's brittle trio of one-acters, time has partly damaged them, and this butter-fingered troupe completes...
Iceland, a few generations ago, was hardly more than a storybook land ruled by the Danes-a seafarer's outpost cut adrift from the rest of civilization. Dandelions and buttercups grew on the turf roofs of cottages. Even hens' eggs tasted of fish. The people seemed dour, except when drunk on words or alcohol, and the only way that one could effectively insult a native was to call him a Dane...
Many veniremen are obviously eager to be among the twelve jurors who will sit in judgment on Richard Speck, 25, the adrift seaman who is accused of murdering eight student nurses in Chicago last July. A middle-aged pastry cook from Peoria, 111., assured a quizzical prosecutor, "I've not discussed the case nor heard anything about it on the radio. I'd be fair, all right." Yet when Speck's court-appointed attorney, Gerald Getty, asked her if she thought she could honestly find Speck innocent, she shook her head and replied, "No, it was taking...