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...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...
Britain's lanky Dr. Roger Bannister, first man ever to run a mile in less than four minutes (3 min. 59.4 sec., at Oxford -TIME, May 17), hung up his spiked shoes and retired from international com petition so that he can do two years of steady medical work in a London hospital...
...week, as the Illinois trustees got set to try again, Henry's old friends in Detroit had a few words to say about the sort of charges made against him. Said Wayne's President Clarence Hilberry: "A vicious, unsubstantiated and anonymous attack." Added a Detroit board of com merce official: "There are whispers that the trustees at Illinois don't want a leader. They want somebody they can boss around. That's not for Henry...
...demonstrate, largely using Beethoven's own words against him. that the great composer was insufferable. He was slovenly, sadistic, puritanical, suspicious, demanding, uncontrolled, domineering, violent. After he became guardian of his nephew Karl (the boy's father had died), Beethoven tried to own his life com pletely, eventually drove him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Freudians Richard and Editha Sterba charge Beethoven with an "unconscious homosexual" relationship with both his brothers; they imply the same sort of thing in regard to his nephew and. in addition, insist that Beethoven felt toward him not like an uncle but like...
...generally work harder to elect a governor than a Congressman, and for good reason. A governor can dispense far more patronage, let more contracts and do more favors than can any U.S. Congressman or Senator, a fact that leads to the philosophy: "Protect the barn-the hell with the com fields." In last week's elections the Democratic Party did much better than the G.O.P in protecting the barn. The Democrats elected governors in seven states that had been controlled by the G.O.P.: Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico (they had taken Maine two months...