Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Benny Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The first of two specials by the master of comic timing...
...Vienna, one of Koch's most efficient killers, a 52-year-old former SS master sergeant named Josef Gabriel, faced justice for wholesale murder in Galicia. Early this month, to escape trial, Gabriel had hurled himself from a third-floor courthouse landing, but he survived to hear witnesses describe how he held Jewish children under his arm while blowing their brains out with a pistol. Likely sentence: life imprisonment...
...other Japanese women the gains have been less spectacular, but in their limited horizons, more revolutionary and of greater significance. Even in the rural districts, where women still work 14 hours a day, and man is still treated as danna-sama (the master), there is change. Explains a countrywoman: "The farm wife is quite willing to work just as hard as before, but she wants to be treated like a human being." Girls are no longer sold to textile factories by their parents-now the factories try to lure them by "guaranteeing a husband before...
Pressed by newsmen, Portuguese officials reluctantly admitted that the Chinese had indeed kidnaped some fishermen, and had forced others to go home. But as always, the Portuguese had no intention of offending their immense neighbor. When asked whether the Communist gunboat had not violated Portuguese waters, the harbor master talked vaguely about his authority extending out only 70 yds. from the shore-a figure that conveniently put the gunboat in the clear...
...light makes Author Eliot bridle, the "cruel" light of "scientific restoration": "Major paintings are handed over to men in white smocks clutching scalpels and chemical swabs ... If there be fifty nailheads in a painted cask, they want to see all fifty. So they strip away . . . Hardly a single master has escaped intact, but Rembrandt appears to have suffered most of all, both in America and in Europe. His celebrated Night Watch at Amsterdam is now a Day Watch" Some other Eliot reflections...