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...uniforms, and a brass band with glockenspiel and drums accompanied them on a little parade through the city. They then formed a half-circle in front of the beer tent and intoned the Lord's Prayer before compelling Mahlberg to try to shoot the golden crown off a wooden bird. In the not-too-distant past, Mahlberg might reasonably have expected to come under fire himself in such an spd heartland. Instead, the reception is warm. The outgoing king of marksmen, Detlev Wilms, 57, who works in the blast furnace at Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, explains that...
...Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday; Tennessee’s Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth...
This weekend, Southern belles and charm will visit New England as Dudley Drama presents, “Sweet Bird of Youth...
...rest of his life, Oppenheimer would be trailed by the question of whether he was a member of the party too. Bird and Sherwin conclude, with an air of mystery, “we do not, and we cannot, know the extent of his commitment” to the Communist Party, except that it was short-lived. Stalin’s purges clearly left him disillusioned with the Soviet experiment...
...typical spy novel fashion, this tale ends on an upbeat note. Oppenheimer finishes far ahead of petty men like Strauss and Hoover. The biography is long, but it is infinitely more satisfying than a Tom Clancy thriller, thanks to Bird and Sherwin’s meticulous character construction. And, even better, the reader doesn’t have to worry about the authors churning out another equally long sequel—at least not for another quarter-century...