Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia, Africa and South America combined. In ratio to population, the Japanese circulation approximates that of the U.S., far exceeds Russia's. Biggest Japanese daily is Tokyo's outsized Asahi, which has four regional publishing plants and a staff of more than 7,000, turns out a grand total of 109 morning editions, for a circulation...
...Nanook of the North. It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand. In the three years since Pather Panchali was released, it has won five grand prizes at film festivals from Cannes to San Francisco. And everywhere discriminating moviegoers have plied the turnstiles in modest but impressive numbers-everywhere, that is, except in the U.S., where the film played only in San Francisco's Vogue Theater. For almost two years the managers of Manhattan...
...artlessness with which Author del Castillo achieves a child's angle of vision makes his boy-hero Tanguy one of the most endearing and poignant figures in recent fiction. Child of Our Time is both a grim and a grand commentary on the human condition. The first response to this book is elemental-to weep. The second response is to marvel that Michel del Castillo endured what he did, and that, having endured, he could still forgive so much that is eternally unforgivable...
...Ginger Rogers Show (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).-Grand news: Old Hoofer Rogers kicks up her heels on TV, with the uplifting presence of Ray Bolger to help her over the jumps. The antique Ritz Brothers may need even more help as they try to parody Russia's superb Moiseyev Dance Company. Unfortunately missing from the party: Fred Astaire, who starts his own new show this week (see below...
CASABLANCA, Morocco, Oct. 19--Mike Hawthorn yesterday became the first Briton to win the world auto driving championship by finishing second to Stirling Moss, another English ace, in the Grand Prix of Morocco. The race was the final grand prix of the season and Hawthorn clinched the title in the final moment...