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Sindlinger is also helping to finance a movie version of Barry Benefield's Eddie and The Archangel Mike, a so-so seller in 1943. Workshop research indicated that what the book really needed was a new title. Sindlinger's Workshop thought up one that had almost everything in it: Texas, Heaven and Brooklyn...
King Michael of Rumania turned 26, quietly and privately at his hunting lodge, set himself for the loud and public whoop-de-do next week on his "name day," the Feast of Michael the Archangel...
...Cincinnati Zoo, over the din of squawking birds and roaring cats, grand opera is performed nightly in midsummer. Washington's National Zoo is notable for the contributions it gets from the White House-Teddy Roosevelt gave it a Somali ostrich, Calvin Coolidge a pigmy hippo, Franklin Roosevelt an Archangel pigeon...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...
...Archangel itself is a good old-fashioned Western-frontier town in spite of its 300 years. You have only to look down the nearest side street to see a first-class fight at any hour of the day or night. Men, women & children are likely to relieve themselves on any street-except the main street. The streets and roads are so bad that when anyone travels any distance in and around Archangel in a car, it is news and is reported as such. Pravda Severa, published in Archangel, carried an item about a doughty citizen who drove for six versts...