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Phoenix is a blowup of Petronius' famous 1,900-year-old yarn, The Matron of Ephesus. It tells of an inconsolable widow mourning at her husband's bier; and of the soldier who .happens in and consoles her so wondrously that, when someone steals the body he was supposed to guard, she offers her husband's in its place. Petronius tosses the yarn off like a firecracker; Fry draws it out like an accordion, often brightening the proceedings but sadly blunting the effect. Heavy staging blunted it further...
...campaign went into full swing. The Reds' idea was to paralyze Finland through a carefully staggered wave of strikes. According to their meticulous timetable, the building workers' union-which like most other unions in Finland is infiltrated by Communists-was to strike the day before the Kemi blowup. Next day it was to be the dockers' turn, then the food workers' (including bakers and brewers). At intervals the woodworkers, truck drivers, textile workers and stonemasons were to follow...
...When the blowup comes, the screaming victim tries to claw his way up the walls, or beats bloody knuckles against them...
...Blowup. The current issue of Aviation Week contains what it claims is a picture of the speedy Russian plane itself (see cut). The drawing was made from a blown-up motion picture film smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain. The original photographs, the magazine says, were taken with a telescopic lens while the plane was being tested, and "arrived in this country by a circuitous process...
Pick 'em Up. If that was the answer to their blowup, the question for earnest Democratic politicians was what to do next. First of all, they needed someone to start picking up the pieces. National Chairman Bob Hannegan had fled, exhausted, to rest. Presumably he would resign when he came back. Aspiring successors were around, but none of them amounted to much. The chief applicant was fat, genial Robert Kerr, who would be out of his job as Governor of Oklahoma in January...