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...harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled...
...ndez, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy putrefaction from the face of the earth." He has the well-preserved carcasses of a donkey, a dog and a 1,500-lb. horse once ridden by Venezuela's late President Delgado-Chalbaud as mute monuments to his success...
...miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece of the Mau Mau, the terrorist secret society that...
...Black Castle (Universal-International) is a forbidding edifice in the Black Forest to which, according to one of its inhabitants, "nothing but evil ever came." This moldering manse is presided over by one-eyed Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally), with a mute Lon Chancy as his doorman and Boris Karloff acting as his house physician. When dashing Sir Richard Burton (Richard Greene) arrives at the black castle, he is i) attacked by a black leopard during a hunting party, 2) almost immersed in an alligator pit, 3) thrown into a subterranean torture chamber, 4) prepared for burial alive. The Black...
...Word. In Chicago, after ex-G.I. James C. Mazza had received disability payments for seven years for a service injury which made him mute, he broke his silence to tell Veterans Administration officials that he was improving, was forthwith turned over to the Justice Department...