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Brawling his way to power in 1935, Zachariades (who toughened himself by bathing in freezing water after the ancient Spartan custom) knifed a policeman to death in an Athens street fight. Next year Greek Dictator John Metaxas locked him away in a medieval prison on the island of Corfu. In prison, learning that Stalin was still honoring his pact with Hitler, Zachariades ordered Greek Communists to cease resisting the 1940 Italian invasion. When Greece fell to the Axis, the Germans shipped Zachariades from Corfu to Dachau, where the U.S. Army found him in 1945 and flew him home to Greece...
...tangle of impossible circumstances, the Mountie goes away for five years in his attempt to clear up the wrong-doing. Fickle womanhood weakens, the wife marries the villain, and also "gives half her heart" to the Mountie's best friend. He returns, and in a delightful departure from established custom, the air is cleared only by the intrusion of the puzzled playwright. His characterization as the willowy, frustrated aesthete provides welcome relief from the tiring melodramatic heros and heroines, and is the most penetrating in the play...
COPPER PRICES are floating down from their ceiling. After long strikes last year which cut supplies by 150,000 tons and pushed prices up some 60% to a peak 55? a lb. for U.S. custom-smelted copper, U.S., Chilean and African mines are finally starting to catch up. Result: prices in the world (i.e., London) market last week tumbled nearly...
...human voice was always man's most expressive musical instrument, and until a few centuries ago it was also the most flexible. Then part singing was invented, and in time the singer's voice became corseted by custom into one of six categories: soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass. Like any set of muscles restricted to less than full capabilities, the human voice became the slave of the restriction. Individuals once even went to such extremes as castration to break out,* but occasionally a voice comes along that needs no adjustment to make musical news: the thrilling...
Although seniority is an established and expedient way of appointing chairmen to Congressional committees, and while it works well in the majority of cases, the method is far from perfect. To preserve the custom as the best of feasible methods, Congress has shown in the past that it will, in unusual circumstances, make exceptions. When to make these exceptions, and how general they should be, then becomes a problem for which it is almost impossible to set criteria. But three exceptions, among the thousands of appointments, indicate that the Senate puts a higher premium on tradition than on criteria...