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...other presentation is a delightful version of Don Giovanni, that suave master of conquests--some 1003 in Spain we are told. In Mozart's opera the action covers just one day, but the Don tries like the devil to up his total by four or more. Naturally, he ends up with the devil himself and sinks out of sight to the accompaniment of the Underworld's trombones and smoke...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin and Cliff F. Thompson, S | Title: Mozart in Boston | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

...They are hungry]." They were so hungry that they were willing to sup with the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Hungry Ones | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...across in September 1894. Historian Chapman ably retells the story of how, with a few slipshod handwriting comparisons, a War Office clique decided that studious, impersonable. wealthy and unpopular Captain Alfred Dreyfus was the logical culprit. Author Chapman argues that Dreyfus' court-martial and imprisonment at Devil's Island were mostly a tragedy of honest errors, not a conspiracy of racial malice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Retrial | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Devil in the Flesh. In London, Harold Allen, 36, explained to police that he was acting solely at the prompting of a "voice" when he angrily threw open the door of a confessional in Westminster Cathedral and punched Father Edward Bushey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

According to one policeman, the elder McCoy said the idea of "putting my daughter away" had been on his mind for several days. He said he feared that his daughter would lose her employment. Another policeman said that McCoy killed his daughter "because the devil prompted me. . . . I wanted her to die before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. School Employee Killed by Father, 87 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

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