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...triumph of British pluck over Levantine cunning. On one side are ranked wholesome Terence Morgan and his fellow painters (Derek Bond and Paul Rogers); on the other looms the hypnotic Svengali (oldtime Shakespearean Actor Donald Wolfit). who drifts about the screen in tattered clothes, rather like a grounded crow. In between is Hildegarde Neff, who makes Trilby, the Irish artist's model, exactly the "great, beautiful, stupid cow" of a woman that Du Maurier intended...
...medley of warmed-over Peeperisms, left the patrons cold, the Dunes Hotel rehired him three days later on his promise that he would whip up a scintillating potpourri of brand-new Peeperisms. But on his second chance, Funnyman Cox chiefly tried for laughs in a masochistic spectacle of eating crow and sadly cackling over the original egg he laid. Muttered a disconsolate Dunesman: "He laid another egg. There weren't enough clients to pay for the lights." Rejoined Cox: "Gosh!" He soon learned that even eggs can have a silver lining. His hastily hired replacement, Cinecomedian Mickey (The Atomic...
...Christian Century's columnist, Simeon Stylites (real name: the Rev. Halford E. Luccock), observed that "some whirling dervishes of white supremacy" in South Africa and the U.S. seem to have discovered a new version of the Bible: the Jim Crow Bible. Sample verses: "Suffer little white children, and forbid them not, to come unto me [Matthew 19:14]"', "Come unto me, all ye Caucasians that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest [Matthew...
...Birmingham, two women who declared that they had been admitted by mail to the University of Alabama and then turned down when authorities found that they were Negroes won the first court decision against Jim Crow in the state's educational system. The women, ruled Federal Judge Harlan H. Grooms, "were denied admission to the university solely on account of their race and color." Henceforth, in accordance with the 14th Amendment, the university will have to admit qualified Negroes...
Convincingness, the sine qua non of illustration, led even Mobile-Maker Alexander Calder to resort to the recognizable for his illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...