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Bright, hard-charging Newsman Reynolds, onetime (1938-41) White House correspondent for United Press, was hired by the late Merchant Prince Marshall Field on the recommendation of their mutual friend, Franklin Roosevelt, who once showed his affection for Reporter Reynolds by sending his wife two dozen roses on the birth of their first child. Tom Reynolds went to work for Field's still-to-rise Sun as White House correspondent in 1941, scored many newsbeats of the breathless brand that delighted his publisher. Example: eleven days after Newsman Reynolds reported for the Sun that eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs...
...explosion of painting in Renaissance Italy marked an "awakening of the eye," the explosion of music in post-World War II America suggests a massive unstopping of the U.S. ear. "Americans have discovered music," says Music Merchant André Kostelanetz, "like a people who have discovered red and blue and green where all had been black and white before." In its musical black-and-white era, the U.S. already had great symphony orchestras, great opera, great foreign artists-and it conquered the world with its jazz. What is different today is the extraordinary breadth of the nation's music...
Died. General Napoleon Zervas, 66, swart, barrel-chested Greek soldier of fortune, reactionary politico, onetime (1950-51) Minister of Public Works and Merchant Marine, who redeemed his prewar years as a conniver, gambler and opportunistic plotter with a skillful guerrilla war during the German occupation of Greece (as head of EDES-National Democratic Army), for which he received Britain's Order of the British Empire, later was credited with rounding up 17,000 Communists in Greece's postwar civil strife; of a heart ailment; in Athens, where his elder brother, Merchant Alex Zervas, collapsed and died after seeing...
Perhaps due to inexperience, the acting seems colorless and a little cold. A more stylized and more dramatic approach would improve both the performance's pace and its credibility. There is little sense of dramatic response between one character and another. Eugene Pell as the Merchant is the major offender, with a tendency to over-draw his characterization with scarcely a change in pace or tone of voice. Cyrus Hamlin as the guide and William Schroeder as the coolie are both adequate, but a little dull. Mark Mirsky as the judge is more communicative, but a little out of touch...
...MERCHANT OF PRATO, by Iris Origo. A biography of a 14th century Tuscan merchant reconstructed from bales of letters and ledgers. What could have become a dreary recital is in fact a shrewd look at an early capitalist, a fine piece of social history and a graceful piece of writing...