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Died. Theodore Roethke, 55, poet and professor of English at the University of Washington, who built his spare verse upon recollections of his hothouse childhood (his father was a commercial gardener in Saginaw, Mich.), blending the imagery of orchid, loam and garden creature with deceptively simple singsong; of a heart attack; on Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound, Wash...
Staudacher crashed into Pelican Point at 150 m.p.h. The boat missed a shelf of rocks by 18 in., rose majestically and hurtled some 150 ft. through the air, came down on a bank of loam and sand that was about the only spot on the peninsula not covered by rocks, skidded nearly into the water on the far side of Pelican Point before stopping...
Vaporized Hen. The unarmed bomb slammed down in the gummy loam near Florence (pop. 30,000) and went off with the impact and power of a 2,000-lb. World War H-type RDX bomb. Its exploding charge of TNT, part of the nuclear trigger device, dug a 20-ft. crater in the backyard of the asbestos-shingle home of Railroad Conductor Walter ("Bill") Gregg, 37, cut and bruised Gregg, his wife, his three children and his niece, damaged seven buildings, killed one hen and probably vaporized a dozen more. Within minutes the curious began pouring toward the crater. Kids...
...century sort who believes quite firmly that for a man of his birth and talents, a position as a gentleman's gentleman is ideal. Similarly, thinks Crichton, his master's ideas about equality are not only dangerous but wrong. Crichton's philosophy is sorely tested when Lord Loam and his daughter are marooned along with Crichton and a few other on a desert island...
...motion picture is a charming combination of satire, whimsy, and melodrama. As Crichton, Kenneth More is proper--yet moving. Cecil Parker is a blusteringly good Lord Loam and Sally Howes is not only beautiful, but acts, too. The adaptation suffers somewhat from an inability to smooth out the entrances and scene changes which are an accepted part of the theater, but unsettling on the screen. The movie's ending was probably more convincing 50 years ago, but is still acceptable. The evening as a whole is quite enjoyable...