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...chief of the national guard showed me a collection of about 7,000 old weapons straight out of the cavern of Ali Baba. He wanted Browning light machine guns, which I managed to get out of Canadian surplus stocks, and we clinched the deal." The Panamanian antiques were sold to U.S. gun collectors, and Cummings was launched as an international gun barterer. He recycled 26 Vampire jets from Sweden to the Dominican Republic, swapped field equipment for Guatemalan arms, sold 80,000 machine guns to Finland and got a cache of old collectibles in return...
DIED. Helen Humes, 68, torchy, mellow-voiced jazz singer who, after appearing with Count Basic from 1938 to 1942, went on to a solo career that spanned 40 years; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Humes, a rhythm-and-blues star with her 1945 hit Be Baba Leba, retired in 1967 but staged a comeback six years later, singing in the U.S. and Europe until illness forced her to quit last year...
...wealthy, a media room can be an Ali Baba's cave. Gerald Hill, a Wisconsin-based oil explorer, has electronic centers both at his Lake Geneva home and aboard his 86-ft. yacht, Bravo Papa. In addition to a vast array of video-stereo equipment in the home room, he has a library of 2,000 movies, including the entire John Wayne film canon and all episodes of the M*A*S*H TV series. The equipment in the seagoing media room includes a Javelin night-vision TV camera that scans the ocean or shoreline and projects what...
...Baba (Belle Linda Halpern) appears as dark as her troubled soul. Her voice, a bit weaker and rougher than Monica's, blends smoothly with her daughter's. When they sing a lullaby to calm Baba, the soothing voices hardly betray that the lullaby is about a dead lover with "eyes of glass and feet of stone...
Toby faces a difficult acting problem. He should be charming enough to be loved by Monica but disquieting enough to terrify Baba. The Toby in this performance (Joseph Lee) strikes a compromise somewhere between charm and dumb-foundedness, coming off somewhat like a sad hound. Toby is less of a presence than he could be, making Monica's love look more like pity and Baba's fear only the fear of silence itself...