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Died. Nicolai Berezowsky, 53, prize-winning Russian-born composer (Symphony No. 4 and the children's opera, Babar the Elephant) and veteran guest conductor; of undetermined causes; in Manhattan.
Ten Million in Publicity. This week, with the ponderous secrecy of an elephant sneaking across a skating rink, the great invasion began. Sixty state troopers were assembled at the town of Williams, Ariz, (ostensibly to attend a police school). They were joined by 30 deputy sheriffs, twelve liquor inspectors, five...
The problem of this novel is: How are you going to keep them down on the sound stage after they've read Ernest Hemingway? Ever since he thrilled to The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, the famous Hollywood director, John Wilson, had been burning in his soul to...
"Kid," he told his sidekick, Screenwriter Peter Verrill, "it's not a crime to kill an elephant. It's bigger than that . . . It's a sin . . . The only sin you can buy a license for and then go out and commit. And that's why I...
Judgment Drums. The rest of the animal kingdom, of course, has to die a little so that Wilson can live, including not only an elephant, but, as bad luck would have it, a native hunter too. As he drives away from the scene of his sin, the African drums drub...