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...barracks, uses a series of flashbacks to go at the hero's question: "Oh, Ross. How did I become you?" As Guinness of Arabia, Sir Alec is at his subtle, suggestive best, and even the physical resemblance is striking. In his radicalism, there is more than a hint of the showoff; in his sophistication, a climber's cunning; in his humility, the prima donna's beady eye. Frightened of latent homosexuality, he shrinks from being touched, can shake hands only with effort. Yet his Lawrence retains the essential nobility of the desert warrior, proudly asserts that...
...Schubert, Schumann and Chopin as encores. Swaying, gyrating, twisting his face into gargoyle grimaces, Richter at times lowered his jutting jaw until it almost touched the keys, at other times threw his head back in a kind of trancelike reverie. His bravura passages had a grandeur with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a feather lightness, and his crescendos or decrescendos were so tightly controlled that they seemed to swell and diminish like the modulations of a well-trained voice...
...COMMON COLD. There is no hint yet of either a preventive or a cure for the common cold. Reporting for a University of Illinois team that has made thousands of tests on 2,500 volunteer cold-catchers, Dr. George Gee Jackson suggested that the idea that there is a specific common-cold virus, peculiar to man, had best be abandoned completely. No fewer than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder...
Reading between the lines, Madrid's monarchists were jubilant. Franco gave no hint of when he would step down, if ever during his lifetime. But as Don Juan the Pretender crossed the border back into Portugal, he cracked to a customs guard: "Hasta pronto [See you soon...
Alarmed at the invasion of the domestic market, U.S. publishers prodded the State Department to protest. Previous protests against the export of Formosan copies to Asian countries hai little effect. This time the State Department hinted that mutual-security funds earmarked for Nationalist China might be pared by irate Congressmen if the pirating did not cease. The hint did not go unheeded. At week's end the Nationalist government issued a stern order forbidding the export ot reprints from Formosa...