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...offices of Radio France on the Rue Bayard came a bright, brash reporter from the Paris-Matin. "I am Christian Basque," he announced politely. "May I speak with whoever is in charge here...
Since Matthew, Mark, Luke and John first wrote it down, the story has been retold by many a brash biographer (notably: Ernest Renan, George Moore, Emil Ludwig). But the original Gospel story still stands four-square against all comers. Undaunted by the experience of his predecessors,* Columbia's Professor Emeritus John Erskine, who has already tried his hand at fiddling with Greek myths where Homer nodded (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Penelope's Man), last week came forward with a new version of the Gospel story (The Human Life of Jesus; Morrow...
...held out a three-foot-long sweet potato, and Harry Truman gravely inspected it. He laughed at the brash jokes of a midget master of ceremonies, watched a team of husky girl dancers in pink scanties, closely followed three horse races, presented a cup to the winning jockey of "The President Truman Derby...
...wartime, when the U.S. was footing the bill, brotherly love and production soared and sang at Cleveland's bountiful, brash Jack & Heintz, Inc., makers of plane equipment. Associates (employes) luxuriated in hot showers and Turkish baths, cheek by jowl with pink-jowled President William S. Jack, got free insurance and Florida vacations. Out of their sky-high wages ($5,000 a year and up) they gratefully sank $15,000,000 in preferred stock in Jahco to finance a still rosier postwar future. But peace and cutbacks brought trouble to this production paradise. By last week Jahco's eight...
...American. Critics who look for oriental innuendoes in Dong's bright colors and brash brushwork can trace his work back to China's 1,400-year-old tradition of sacrificing detail to get the "rhythmic vitality" of a scene...