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...been 29 months overseas . . . nearly a year in the front lines. . . . My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut." Frail, brave Columnist Pyle added that, as soon as he is rested up, he hopes to push off for the Pacific...
Lesser parts are competently, though not brilliantly performed. James Monks, of "The Eve of Saint Mark," does the best job of the minor players as Cassio, another victim of Iago's treachery. Uta Hagen is a very frail and very dainty, but also a very spiritless Desdemona. Margaret Webster, who directed the present revival, plays Emilia, Iago's wife, completely straight. She adds not one touch of her own which would let the audience know whether she is working for or against her villainous mate...
Cuba's election of June 1, which was encouragingly open & aboveboard, almost resulted in a military dictatorship. The news came out last week. Two nights after frail, professorial Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin was elected President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...
...Helmericks soon found that the surly Yukon was no highway of ro mance. It carried "the silt of half a continent," and floating forests of trees and driftwood were a daily threat to the frail Queen Beaver. Arctic breezes whipped up icy waves that drenched the honeymooners to their skins. When they spent the night on a river island their down-lined sleeping bags were soon sodden with stagnant water...
...become gleaming and entirely dandruff-free.) The last 100 miles was a race against time: as they neared the Bering Sea the ice began to creep up on them from the Yukon's freezing banks. In late September they left the river, and Indians guided the frail canoe through the last miles of turgid swampland, to the town of Bethel...