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...animals. While Curtiz eliminated the sermon to the birds as "too corny," Dillman was still required to bless a menagerie ranging from dogs to ducks. And in the closing minutes of the film-shot in Rome on golden sand previously hallowed by Ben-Hur's chariot tracks -the director decided to foreshadow Francis' death by depicting a raven on a desolate limb. Explained a Curtiz assistant: "We had three ravens in Assisi; one died of cold, and another flew the coop. Some body shut a car door on the last one this morning and clipped off half...
...Greeks saw them-beings more than mortal, but no more than human. He explains, for instance, that the sea god Poseidon "hated to be less important than his younger brother (Zeus), and always went about scowling. When he felt even crosser than usual, he would drive away in his chariot to a palace under the waves, near the island of Euboea, and there let his rage cool. As his emblem Poseidon chose the horse, an animal which he pretended to have created. Large waves are still called 'white horses' because of this...
ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com- peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help to Apollo, who tamed a wild team that Admetus drove to victory to win Alcestis. See Music, Mommy...
When I was a cub reporter, 65 years ago, I was taught that there never had been but two outstanding jobs of reporting: 1) Lew Wallace's account of the Ben-Hur chariot race (fictional); 2) Lafcadio Hearn's account of the Gas House [Tannery] Murder in the Cincinnati Enquirer...
...reaction." When De Gaulle applies for admission in the Atomic Club, he is asked to produce his bomb. "I haven't got one," he replies. "It went off." In its bitterness, the magazine is losing some of its sense of humor. De Gaulle is no longer Le Grand Chariot but Le Grand Charletan...