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...After modern-day journeys to Bassano, Venetian critics were just as enthusiastic, spoke of reserving a section of the next Venice Biennale for Jacopo. Wrote Venice's Il Gazzettino: "Jacopo realized a personal vision that does not give ground even when confronted with the greatest of 16th century Venetian artists...
...Navy reached back into history to find a fitting name for the atomic submarine now abuilding, and finding it, broke from its tidy modern-day custom of naming all submarines after deep-sea fish. The name of the atomic craft: U.S.S. Nautilus...
Died. Frederic C. Dumaine, 85, one of the sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine...
Bell, Book and Candle (by John van Druten; produced by Irene Mayer Selznick) comes up with a bright comedy idea and, for perhaps better than half the evening, with a bright comedy. Playwright van Druten has assumed not only that there are modern-day witches but that they can be modish and highly efficient, and that one of them is attractive enough to ensnare a bright Manhattan publisher. When the publisher discovers she is a witch, he walks out on her-only for her to discover she is now a woman. Hoist on her own broomstick, she has fallen...
...play is lightly splashed with irony and symbolism; beyond his other functions, the soldier, with his yowling for the noose, exemplifies a certain dogged modern-day pessimism. But the play is not to be dredged for large meanings. It says, if it says anything, that life itself is a tidal wave that overflows all philosophic sea walls...