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Carnivorous Fleas. Berio's Allez Hop had to do with a flea escaped from a trained flea act and carried to an official government reception. There the flea so harried the politicians that they were driven to a declaration of war. In the opera's finale, the war was over and the world peaceful but so boring that the trainer decided to release the flea again and start the cycle all over. Although most critics found the atonal opera "a joke in bad taste," some had kind words for its opening striptease scene executed to a honky-tonk...
Died. J. P. McEvoy, 63, writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach...
Albert Schweitzer runs his hospital. The sanitary arrangements were "picturesque," but the picture Gunther leaves of the grand old doctor seizing a spade to encourage his leper workmen ("Allez-vous OPP, allez-vous OPP-upp-OPP . . .") stands out like a flame in the forest...
...Allez-y." The words were like a spark in dry tinder. Within a week, nationalist resentment had flashed into open rebellion; 130 Arabs were wounded in a clash with French police at Beja; 15 were hurt in another riot at Ferryville. The French acted promptly, arrested five nationalist leaders plus a handful of Communists, and sent Bourguiba himself into "exile" in a small village in the north...
...refusing to fire as the mob swarmed over their tanks, smashing ports and prying open the turrets. "I'm going to fire," a young tank captain shouted to his commanding officer. "I can no longer be responsible for the safety of my men." The commander at last relented. "Allez-y," he cried. The automatic rifles spat. The mob turned and ran, leaving six dead behind them...