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Died. General Bernard Cyril ("Tiny") Freyberg, 74, New Zealand's hero of two world wars, proud possessor of nine battle wounds and many more decorations (including the Victoria Cross), a bluff, towering New Zealander who swam the Gulf of Saros o Gallipoli in 1915, dragging a raft of lares in a diversionary tactic against the Turks, in World War II led Imperial troops in Libya, bloody Crete and Italy, where he once squelched a U.S. genral's complaint that New Zealanders never saluted with the crack, "Try waving at them and they'll wave back," returned home...
...Plaza, a pre-Broadway tryout of a new comedy by William Mc-Cleery, is based on Peter De Vries's novel about a widowed clergyman whose plans to remarry are frustrated by a campaign to name the town square after his first wife. Hal (Mark Twain) Holbrook stars. Cyril Ritchard directs. Westport. Conn.; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Louisville...
...heredity of all living organisms. Since the first life probably appeared on earth when chemicals already dissolved in sea water formed a giant molecule that had the power to reproduce itself, it is likely that this ancestral molecule was a nucleic acid. If it was, reasoned Ceylonese Biochemist Cyril Ponnamperuma, the pregnant primitive ocean must have contained such bases as adenine...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw. This gallimaufry of tired Shavianisms on the religious temper, the military mind, and the desperate plight of the idle rich is a theatrical sleeping pill. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-try to wake the play...
...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard G.B.S., full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism and the idle rich. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-rushes about filling the dramatic vacuum...