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Unnoticed Guest. Lonely, forlorn, often sour, Jack Benny doesn't see the world as a great big ball of laughs. There is much color in his work but little in his private life. He has prosaic tastes and few pleasures (golf is one). He is intelligent but unsophisticated about nearly everything but show business. His education stopped in the ninth grade. He means it when he says that the highest moment of his career came when his home town in Illinois named a junior high school after...
...twelve women and 14 children clad in tattered sheepskin coats and babushkas were a forlorn lot with a forlorn tale. They came from a sect of Protestant Pentecostal evangelists in the Siberian town of Chernogorsk, near the Mongolian border 2,100 miles to the east. Of late, local authorities there had taken away several children of the sect, and threatened to imprison the adult faithful. With the vague notion that a foreign embassy might help them, the Siberians went by train to Moscow. Now they wanted to travel to "Israel"-probably meaning the Israel of the Old Testament...
...Houston carried the first of the 1,113 survivors of Brigade 2506, the forlorn-hope band of Cuban exiles who suffered catastrophe at the Bay of Pigs. For their release, the U.S. had agreed to pay Fidel Castro a ransom of $53 million in drugs, medical equipment and other goodies (see following story). As the planes bringing back the prisoners prepared to take off from Havana's San Antonio airport, Castro delayed their departure by demanding to inspect the first shipment of drugs. Then he watched a demonstration of Soviet MIGs in the air space required for the prisoners...
...desolate farms, the long passageways of decaying houses, the interiors seen in unusual perspective, could have become merely stagy. But in Wyeth the drama does not get out of hand, for even objects take on human emotion. He can paint a frozen drinking trough and make it seem as forlorn as an orphaned child. His battered barns brood about better days; a darkened window can show the same pain as the eyes of one of Wyeth's Negroes. The world that Wyeth paints is old, weary, sad and scarred. It is not nostalgia for a simpler, more homespun America...
Universal Guilt. The hero of Zeko is a forlorn little shadow of a man who returns to Belgrade after fighting in World War I. Rootless and despairing, he is browbeaten by a tigress of a wife called the Cobra, and bullied by her son, who may or may not be his. But when World War II breaks out, Zeko snaps out of his malaise. He sees a group of peasants hanged from lampposts by the Nazis, and in sudden outrage, he resolves to join the underground. Simultaneously, he finds the courage to revolt against the tyranny of his wife...