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...Krokodil which will be published shortly. It is a humorous conversation between the Lampoon's symbol, the Ibis, and the Russian magazine's mascot, a crocodile. Eide said that the article contains a humorous jab at Russia's poor modern architecture. In the article, Ibis says, "I liked St. Basil's best of all the buildings...
Recollections at 30 (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC). A 1939 salute to Britain's royal family, with Hostess Gertrude Lawrence, Vivien Leigh, Basil Rathbone, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Greer Garson, George M. Cohan, Leslie Howard...
...Basil Walters, ruddy, snow-topped executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, was chomping his cigar in his Chicago Daily News office one morning last May when a visiting politician handed him a king-size story to bite on. The politician's tip: Illinois State Auditor Orville E. (for Enoch) Hodge's office was in deep financial trouble. The tip was surprising, since Hodge, often mentioned as a Republican candidate for Illinois' governor in 1960, is a popular official who has created the impression that he has a private fortune to support his expensive tastes, e.g., monogrammed...
...Parasitic diseases once thought peculiar to the south and the tropics are spreading north, reported the University of Illinois' Drs. Carroll L. Birch and Basil P. Anast. Mass migrations from south to north have carried with them hookworm, whipworm and ascarides. Immigrants in the thousands from the West Indies have brought the parasites of schistosomiasis and filariasis. Hookworm, whipworm and Schistosoma mansoni began to appear in northern cities only in 1950; years ahead of them were the amoeba (a cause of chronic dysentery) and pinworm. Estimated schistosomiasis cases in New York City, 70,000; in Chicago...
...characters are simple, except for Danny Kaye. Glynis Johns, is also a veteran of the Walt Disney-type saga of the Middle Ages, has by now learned how to be a comely wench in the best neo-medieval style. The most slippery of the courtiers, Ravenhurst, is played by Basil Rathbone who duels once and sneers and stands around. The rest of the people mostly stand around while Danny Kaye does things. He is good at doing things because he is bewitched most of the time, therefore bold, daring, and resourceful...