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Died. Monrad Charles ("Mon") Wallgren, 70, soft-spoken New Deal Democrat from Washington State, a onetime jeweler and U.S. amateur billiards champion who rose successively to Congressman (1932-1940), Senator (1940-44) and Governor (1944-48), went into political eclipse after he lost the 1948 gubernatorial race, was rejected by the Senate when Harry Truman nominated him to the National Security Resources Board in 1949 but finally won confirmation as a member of the Federal Power Commission; as a consequence of injuries suffered in an auto accident in July; in Olympia, Wash...
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...begins a motion picture called Last Year in Marienbad, easy to smile at, difficult to understand, the work of one of the most acclaimed directors in modern cinema, the New Wave's Alain Resnais. Like his masterpiece, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, the new film compresses and realigns conventional treatment of time, making a looping bow of past and future and knotting it down on the present. Leaving relationships vague, carefully avoiding the usual structure of cause and effect, it tries to force audiences to interpret the story for themselves. Last week Marienbad was named winner of the 1961 Venice Film...
...sales last year, with an $86,000 profit) K. C. Card Co. Karnov introduced himself as "a manufacturer of perfect dice"; but he admitted that he devoted 21 pages of his catalogue to what he blandly called "trick dice or gaffed dice." Growled Arkansas Democrat McClellan: "The more com mon expression is crooked dice, isn't it?" Muttered Karnov: "I guess...
...vocal line should dominate," and it does, against an orchestra as luminous as any Ravel ever created. Among the opera's more effective touches: a procession of shepherds and shepherdesses to a sinuous dance theme played by reed pipes and tambourines; the dizzying dance of the digits (Mon Dieu! c'est I'arithmetique!) to raucous and leering brasses...