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...when Janice and Emily were slugged, bound and stabbed to death around noon in their East Side apartment. Detectives questioned 1,000 persons, all to no avail, until April...
...Vassily Popov, who keeps his watch on Moscow time, charge one another with high treason. The Americans, generally as collegiate as Atherton (his qualifications: Princeton courses in "Great Ideas of the West" and "Great Ideas of the East"), try to turn it into low comedy. To no noticeable avail. The humor, clearly intended to be revisionist Ninotchkci, is virtually pre-Czar...
Pantomime speaks in a universal language, and it is usually baby talk. At New York's City Center, the Polish Mime Theater has added music, choreography and a variety of props to the basic vocabulary, all to no avail. The company puts extravagant technical competence at the service of canary-brained ideas...
Harvard's swimming team did everything it could to hold down the score against Brown Saturday, but to no avail. Brown had no strength at all and the varsity piled up a 70-24 victory, winning all ten swimming events and losing only the dive...
...little avail. Bajour wants to be offbeat and manages only to be off key. When a group of vagrants camp fifty to the square foot in a deplastered slum store and trumpet that they intend to steal New York blind, the $9.60 ticket buyer is bound to speculate wryly that he may be the next victim. And even if he is filled with escapist envy for the gypsy's irresponsible lot, his conscience, drummed by a thousand pleas, dampens his delight. In the climate of today's opinion, play-gypsies-play translates into the specter of migrant urban...