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From Teheran came reports that Mossadeq himself would fly to the Council meeting, to argue, and probably to weep and faint, in defense of his government's reckless course. Possession (in the old saying, nine points of the law) was on his side...
When it began, five years ago, the BBC's Third Programme was damned with faint praise or jeered at as a "pretentious and high falutin' present for the esthete and the intellectual snob." Last week, on its fifth anniversary, the robustly highbrow Third found the critical climate a good deal more cordial. Seated before a microphone in a BBC subbasement studio, Controller Harman Grisewood noted: "Birthday greetings do not usually take the form of congratulations at having survived. Yet. . . five years are long enough for the programme to have died a natural death if it were not wanted...
Jordan said, however, that he had been advised to delay an election for at least a week, because of the possibility, faint though it is, that Lowenstein may return this season...
...France, stately and beautiful, came up New York Bay, one of her prominent passengers,* a five-star general of France with a faint battle scar on his left cheek, had a particular wish. The general wanted a picture of himself with the Statue of Liberty as backdrop. The massed press photographers were glad to oblige. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, impeccable from kepi to pigskin gloves, turned his hawklike profile to the lenses and pointed theatrically toward his country's copper gift...
...important as the study of anatomy. A disciple of broad-gauged living, Grant also finds time to conduct the school orchestra, play with model trains and fall in love with Jeanne Grain, a young student whose antisocial acts and attitudes include unmarried pregnancy, attempted suicide, and a tendency to faint at the sight of a cadaver. For good measure, Grant's constant companion is a dull-witted giant (Finlay Currie), who not only looks like a murderer...