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...work was done. Above them, on the 18th floor, the company's board of directors was deciding the fate of the long-ailing fortnightly Collier's and the monthly Woman's Home Companion. As the hours wore on, some staffers broke out bottles to brace them selves for the expected shock. At 10:30 it came. Board Chairman and Editor in Chief Paul Smith announced that Collier's would fold with the Jan. 4 issue and the Companion with the January issue, both out this week...
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE BIBLE, by Marc Chagall (Harcourt Brace; $25), is really a poem in etchings and lithographs (133 in all) to celebrate the myths and meanings of the Old Testament. The drawing is rough and bold, almost primitive, but intentionally so, to picture the time and to convey the responses of a driven people who found God in a harsh desert. Deliberate, also, are the Old Testament characters, made to look like medieval ghetto figures, and the animals that might have been drawn by cave dwellers to illustrate a great saga. These powerful, often dreamily tortuous drawings are full...
...Radcliffe girls were among 24 selected to compose two all-college teams for an exhibition game. They were Candy Allen '60, Bud Blair '57, Lucy Newlin '58, Betsy Witte '57, Sigrid Keyserling '60, and Ann Brace '57, current president of the Radcliffe Athletic Association. Sarah Stevens '57 received honorable mention for her performance at the play...
Surrender Reversed. Given so much time to brace itself, even a second-class army should have been able to wipe out an unsupported landing by two battalions of paratroopers. Instead, the Egyptian army left Port Said insufficiently garrisoned and such troops as were there, after a gallant but ineffective initial resistance, rapidly became disorganized. By afternoon of the first day of fighting General Mohammed Riad, governor of Port Said, was ready to talk surrender (a fact Anthony Eden announced to a cheering House of Commons). But when he telephoned Cairo for permission, he was told: No surrender; Port Said must...
...Lbuis, after he used a brace and bit to drill holes in 24 doors in three apartment houses, Joseph Bommarito was given three suspended 60-day workhouse sentences despite his explanation: "I was driving along and I saw a beautiful girl. I just had to see her again...