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...because I didn't know when to go." This time, after a few days of dalliance on the island of Burano, Hepburn goes home. Isa Miranda and young Gaetano Audiero help make Venice seem appealing, while MacDonald Parke and Jane Rose work hard as comic U.S. tourists. The Eastman Color and the camerawork by Jack Hildyard are superb...
Griffes: Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson; Mercury). Gifted U.S. Composer Charles T. Griffes (1884-1920) here gets the first LP of his biggest orchestral effusion. Like his better-known White Peacock (also on this record), it proves him to be the American Delius; the style falls somewhere between French impressionism and German tone poems...
...middle distance man. In his final year at Tamalpais High School in California, McCurdy won his first race against topflight competition and became the state's 880 champion. The following year, as a Stanford freshman, he entered the front rank of the nation's runners, duelling his teammate Ben Eastman, an Olympic star, in what McCurdy calls the most gruelling races of his career...
Besides the challenge of taking on Eastman, he was under the tutelage of Dink Temple, whom he considered "the best coach in the world." Under Temple's guidance, McCurdy eventually lowered his time in the 440 to 0:47, and in the 830 to 1:53. Though he scored these clockings over 15 years ago they compare very favorably with the efforts of present-day stars such as Villanova's Charlie Jenkins and the varsity's Dave Alpera...
...across the board, the profit charts showed an upward curve. Radio Corp. of America boosted its fourth-quarter earnings to $12,968,000, a fat 31% above last year. For the full year, R.C.A. earned $41 million (v. 1953's $35 million). Eastman Kodak Co. pushed its last-quarter profits up more than 50%, to $23 million, closed the year with earnings of $3.99 a share (v. $2.86 for 1953). Even the cancer-scared tobacco industry moved up. R. J. Reynolds (Camels) sent its fourth-quarter profits...