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...shelf and a half in a borrowed room" is all that Oxford Archaeologist Max Mallowan remembers the Iraq Museum as being back in 1925. But the surge of Arab nationalism that made Iraq independent after World War I carried with it pride in a past that goes back 90 centuries, and included such mighty capitals as Babylon, Nineveh and Ur. In 1936 laws were passed to safeguard Iraq's antiquities, which for over a century had been filtering out to the world's great museums. And to insure that relics unearthed in the future would be properly housed...
...called, one student explains, because "when you look at one of those ties you want to blow your lunch") topped off with a Red Baron Flying Ace helmet, complete with ear flaps and shrapnel holes. At Harvard, the grapevine passes the word around within hours whenever Secondhand Deal er Max Keezer or "Morgie's" (Goodwill Industry's Morgan Memorial) gets in any old taxi-driver hats or brownand-white shoes, and some Harvards are even beginning to talk antique: "Those teeny-boppers are a caution." Getting the Message. Women, after years of going hatless, are now covering...
Shrinking Sanctuaries. No MIGs showed up over Thai Nguyen, but as the first day's mission was returning to Thailand, Captain Max C. Brestel became locked in what he called "an old-fashioned dogfight" with four MIG-17s. Brestel damaged one MIG and shot down another. The confirmed kill brought to 37 the number of enemy jets downed by U.S. planes (against ten U.S. losses in air combat), and represented the first MIG nailed since January...
Though none of these actors and actresses look as if they were made in the Max Factory, they manage to seem definitely male and distinctly female. Belmondo, for instance, has a wrinkly-crinkly, all-squeezed-together-in-the-middle sort of face that appears to have just been released from a duck press. Caine has a soft little mouth that seems to be slowly crawling away and a hollow in his chest that a girl could sip champagne from. And Oskar Werner ?well, actually he's as straight as they come, but at first glance people some times wonder...
HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1, 2 and 3 (Odyssey). The late Max Goberman was a protean figure on the New York musical scene. He was pit conductor for West Side Story, and his ambition was to record all 104 symphonies of Haydn. This record is the elegant overture to the unfinished project-a crisp, clear reading that points up Haydn's melodic questions and answers, the asides and one-liners that crowd his scores...