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...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. A previously untranslated 1927 satire of revolutionary Russia by the man who is now Communism's No. 1 journalistic Pooh-Bah. This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar...
...Baade got his doctorate at the University of Gottingen in 1919, most of the mysteries still remained; but in the U.S. new telescopes, bigger and more accurate than anything in Europe, were beginning to probe the sky with new farsightedness. After earning a reputation at Hamburg Observatory, Baade (pronounced bah-de) got the call that all young astronomers there hoped for. In 1931 he went to work at Mount Wilson, Calif, with the 100-in. telescope, at that time the biggest of them...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado with some startling un-type casting: Groucho Marx as Ko-Ko, Helen Traubel as Katisha, Stirling Holloway as Poo-Bah and Dennis King as the Mikado. Color...
...Bah, Lord High Everything Else, Garlick is truly the man born with a sneer, who cannot even arise from his knees without throwing the audience into convulsions. Stone's performance has to be seen to be believed. His facial expressions are each one masterpieces, and his delivery of the old chestnut, "My Object All Sublime" was an experience to remember. His short appearance is almost too good to be true...
...Bah!" retorted the ghost...