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...Burr, 42, gives Erie Stanley Gardner s invincible legal Eye Perry Mason, the first TV face he has had since the reports of his cases started spraying from the presses (62 books in 26 years) Sad-eyed, spade-jowled Actor Burr fits Mason to the last wrinkle of his frown-tor the simple reason that Author Gardner never yet has got around to describing his hero. A so-so player for ten years in Hollywood, Burr closed in on Mason with the tenacity of a man who has landed the big role at last. He studied courtroom procedure, lectured...
...Edtorial Board demands only that its aspirants be versatile, articulate and opinionated. From its columns you can subtly manipulate the opinions of the paper's 10,000 readers. Your slightest frown will make theatres close, statesmen tumble, and deans resign...
...smaller tool, the sculptor pares the head into an elongated, rectangular appendage, no larger than his thumbnail, perhaps one-twentieth the size of the body instead of nature's less than one-seventh. He pushes his own head backward and thrusts the piece forward, studying it with a frown. Then he pokes two tiny indentations to make the eyes. One or more such small maquettes, produced between breakfast and a 1 o'clock lunch, may prove the seed for another of the large reclining women or mother figures to which the mind of Henry Moore returns and returns...
...climax of an annual four-day festival. While other faiths may frown, the Mormons encourage dancing between couples lest the Devil find other work for them. Each of some 1,400 Mormon chapels holds a dance every Saturday night-including a floor show during intermission to undercut any inclination couples may feel to wander off by themselves. The result is that the Mormons are easily the dancingest denomination...
...teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize went to U.S.-trained Jaime Laredo, still a week short of his 18th birthday and the youngest...