Word: janning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last October two Chinese handymen refused to stoke the furnace in the comfortable house of Chargé d'Affaires Berend Jan Slingenberg, unless they got higher wages or another man to help them. Slingenberg told them to fire up the furnace or get fired themselves. When they burst into his office to protest as he was busy with a caller, he angrily ordered them out of the office, and gave one a push. For two weeks nothing happened. Then, one by one, 42 Chinese servants and staffmen began to leave...
...Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (TIME, Dec. 8), which gave millions of adults a chance to watch the Bairds' marionette fish, their nose-wrinkling rabbits, and even a Baird cat climbing a tree-all funny rather than cute. Next Baird TV appearance: The Bell Telephone Hour (Jan. 12, NBC), with the puppets livening the Saint-Saëns Carnival of Animals as Maurice Evans narrates. And next week the Bairds and their puppets will go on the road with an original musical fantasy by Bil Baird (score by Richard Rodgers' composer-daughter Mary...
...Enemy Below. One of the best movies ever made about naval warfare-the story of a duel between a U.S. destroyer escort (Robert Mitchum) and a German sub (Curt Jürgens) in the South Atlantic (TIME, Jan...
...masterly exposition of a heroic myth, extricated by Scriptwriter Carl Foreman from a second-rate sea novel by Jan de Hartog (TIME, July...
...picture is based on The Greek Passion, a novel of spiritual ideas and earthy instances (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954), in which Nikos Kazantzakis retold the story of Christ's Passion as a modern occasion. The scene is set in a Greek village that has grown rich and careful under the tolerant Turkish dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas...