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When the finds are properly studied, Fairservis hopes they will throw light on one of the darkest mysteries of man's past: What common ancestor, if any, begot the flourishing civilizations of Mesopotamia, India and China? When written history began, these centers were developing independently, completely cut off from one another by virtually impassable barriers...
...familiar terms with both Washington's and Michigan's politics and politicians, 49-year-old Blair Moody is a pal of Soapy's, and on a fence-riding, independent newspaper, files Washington dispatches that are generally pro-labor and pro-Truman. When, during the Democrats' darkest days in 1948, he wrote a story touting Harry Truman's chances, his editor sent him a telegram which said: "That was a nice long limb you just crawled out on." That wire, autographed by the President, is now framed in Moody's Washington home...
...stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies in the fact that she can be herself and still translate the flick of an eyelash or the sting of a tear across 15 rows of seats into the darkest corner of the theater...
...most expensive suites were the four famous "ebony rooms" which were furnished "In the richest of the darkest shades of antique oak clear to the ceiling...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship; with Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger (TIME...