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...whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have been dished...
Married. William Turner Walton, 46, British composer (Belshazzar's Feast and the musical score for Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet); and Susana Gil de Passo, 22, daughter of an Argentine lawyer; in a religious ceremony five weeks after a civil ceremony; in Buenos Aires...
Largely to appease the cops, hard-pressed Romans revived the prewar custom of handing out gifts to the police on Feast of the Epiphany-Jan. 6, the day on which Italian children get their Christmas presents. (The gifts are brought by Befana, a green-shawled lady who travels on a broomstick and wears dark spectacles to protect her eyes when she dives down chimneys.) Last week, Roman drivers halted their cars to hand over their presents to "off-duty" policemen who were especially stationed for this purpose next to the regular ones...
...Palestine this year, Christmas night was the eve of Hanukkah ("The Feast of Lights"), an eight-day celebration commemorating the great victories of Judas Maccabeus over the Syrians in 165 B.C. By Christmas Eve, the Israeli army was once again on the march, breaking the uneasy truce that had begun to settle on Palestine...
This week Rank's Religious Films Ltd. unveiled a new production called Belshazzar's Feast, and a new star - the Rt. Rev. Christopher Maude Chavasse, bishop of Rochester. The film opens with a shot of the bishop preaching. As the sermon unfolds, screen stills dramatize the story -from the feast, through the handwriting on the wall, to Daniel's denunciation...