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...Banal Incident." For the U.N. the last straw came next day when Congolese troops spotted 14 Canadian servicemen in a plane about to leave Ndjili, decided that they, too, were Belgians. They knocked the Canadians to the ground to search them, pounded a Canadian captain into unconsciousness with a rifle butt, stripped the others of their wallets and watches. As Ghanaian troops moved in to intervene, the U.N.'s Indian Brigadier Inder J. Rikhye swooped down by helicopter from his Leopoldville headquarters. Livid with rage, he roared at the Congolese: "I order you off this airfield immediately!" Meekly they...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...
...part stream of consciousness, first through the oversimplified mind of the girl in a kind of Schreckengost-written prose, then through the hypomanic mind of the A. & R. man, who has abandoned serious composing and now sees himself as "a latter-day alchemist, compounding dross voices with banal notes to produce gold." Novelist Ishlon insists that Anna Lou Schreckengost is no one in particular. She could be an approximation of Cincinnati's Doris Kappelhoff, who-with 1946-3 Sentimental Journey-made famous her new name, Doris Day. But coincidence falls closer to Norma Jean Speran:a, a teenager from...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...