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Jean Cocteau realized that fairy stories are really much too good to be left entirely up to the wretched treatment they receive from story-book writers. So, striking a blow for the adult world, he made Beauty And The Beast. And after the first half hour of sustained suspense, horror and weird doings, it is obvious that the basic material is not fit for juvenile consumption, it's too scary...
...farm hand Roger Hilton, 28, born in industrial Lancashire, was new to the Gloucestershire countryside and its tradition-swathed hunters. When he saw a fox slinking toward his master's chicken house one day last week, Roger took up a shotgun and blasted the beast. Before the echoes died away, there was a clatter of hoofs, a clamor of hounds, and up rode the local hunt. The hunters stared aghast at Roger's atrocity. They were speechless. Not so Roger's employer...
...murders apiece -and then were hanged in the courtyard of Lower Saxony's yellow-walled Hameln prison. They were buried on the spot in plain coffins in a common unmarked grave. Most were ex-warders from nightmarish Belsen, including suet-faced ex-Commandant Joseph Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen," and his 21-year-old girl assistant Irma Grese, whose particular hobby consisted of turning her fierce dogs loose on Belsen's helpless inmates...
...gallery of portraits includes the affable murderer, a respected but degenerate lawyer, who kills and mutilates his 19-year-old maidservant; the murder suspect, an apelike beast, who is really as engaging as he is simple, although he did try to rape, of all people, the madam of the establishment at No. 15, Street of the Little Nuns; the police sergeant, who acts the cop but cannot understand why he has devoted 30 years of unflagging vigilance to maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced...
ENTEBBE, Uganda, Jan. 26--First reports in over six months of the Lampoon's long-missing Ibis came to light today when adventuring author Ernest Hemingway's party told the Associated Press here that a metallic-tinged beast had led the flock of jungle birds that downed their plane last Saturday...