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...your haw-haw-lier-than-thou reviewer's damning with faint puns Peter De Vries' Through the. Fields of Clover: for such a pun-stirrer to grind up De Vries' meaty message with half-witticisms of his own seems in wurst possible taste-particularly in such a notorious quip-joint as TIME...
Then there are the civil servants. More than 2,000 Belgians are employed by provincial governments and by Premier Joseph Ileo's central Congolese regime to run waterworks, power plants, to collect taxes and keep account books. Without them, things would grind to a halt in many a Congo town. Not long ago, the lights went out and the water stopped running in Bukavu when the four Belgians who manned the Ruzuzi River dam took off in terror at the arrival of gun-toting Congolese soldiers...
...tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road gang's traditional chant. Wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express: "Certainly the show lacks the fine cutting edge that the Americans grind onto their musicals. But the more sophistication, the less vitality. And King Kong triumphs in the end by its bursting, smoking, glowing life...
...Nottingham lathe operator who fairly hums with the joy of doing wrong, Actor Finney is far more believable than was Actor Haigh as angry Jimmy Porter, and is something of a reflection of Finney himself when he delivers the line: "I'd like to see anyone try and grind me down. I'm out for a good time. All the rest is propaganda." Finney is the offstage opposite of what he calls "the types who spend their time in theater clubs." He considers friends "a bit of a liability." Part quicksilver and part glunch, his boyish, good-looking...
...Cincinnati's Robertson is a pure product of the sport of basketball as it has developed in, the U.S. The game was invented in 1891 in Springfield, Mass, by a gym instructor named Jim Naismith, who wanted to give his bored classes a switch from the daily grind of calisthenics. Today basketball is played with eager enthusiasm and improving skill by some 50 nations from Chile to China, but it has remained a distinctly American game. Its virtues are obvious : any number can play, indoors or out, in all seasons. It requires nothing more than a ball...