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...Henry Ford's old Fairlane estate (a $5,000,000, 56-room tax headache turned over to the University of Michigan), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee applied a tidy syllogism to the automaker's most famous pronouncement. "Well," said Toynbee, "Henry Ford is history. History is bunk. Therefore, by his logic, he is bunk...
...Story of Jazz (narrated by Langston Hughes; Folkways). A neatly telescoped chronicle of the U.S.'s greatest native art form from Basin Street to Birdland. Using segments of historic recordings, Narrator Hughes gets thumping, jumping assistance from Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson et al. Folkways also offers a vast additional library of musical lore from West Indies calypso to Ghana folk tales...
...cell No. 20 in Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison last week, a grey-haired prisoner lay on his bunk and refused all food, though he occasionally took a swig of water to ease his hunger pains. At 64, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico's No. 1 Communist and No. 1 living artist, was on a hunger strike. His stomach troubled him, but Siqueiros was adamant: "I will continue until we get justice...
...auto with a train; near Guadalajara, Mexico. A prescient analyst of Far East developments in the 1930s. Close predicted Japanese war aims and the rise of Red China. In the 1940s he helped organize reactionary American Action, Inc., bitterly opposed the U.N. ("All this idealism is the bunk...
...idea of Russian bases in Cuba is "bunk-comic-opera stuff." The Kremlin is too smart for that since such bases would be indefensible. Communists in Latin America are concealing direct ties to Moscow, hammering at the U.S. as "the colossus of the North" through nationalist, anti-imperialist propaganda themes laid down by the 21st Communist Party Congress at Moscow in early...