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Like Giotto, Italy's first great painter, Městrović spent his boyhood as a penniless shepherd, grew up to be a religious mystic. But unlike Giotto, Městrović is no innovator. In manner as well as in spirit, he is traditional. But U.S. citizens who know him best for the mounted Indians on Chicago's Congress Street Plaza will find his Metropolitan sculptures quite different. Among them: a 5½-ton Pietà, a contorted and agonized Job, a doubled-up heaven-staring figure of Despair. There is also a series of scriptural stories...
...Government had no answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
There is some honest historical conflict, and a bit of honest unhappiness, in this movie. Spencer Tracy too often gazes stonily at God's sea of grass to show that he is both rugged individualist and nature mystic, but he plays with considerable force and style. As the decades roll by, Melvyn Douglas looks as wretched as the most vindictive moralist could decently expect. Miss Hepburn looks tense too, but arouses interest chiefly through her beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes...
Evidence suggesting that Eugene E. Harmon '50 died of a self inflicted wound was released by City Medical Examiner William J. Brickley last night, three days after the ex-student's body was found in the Mystic River beneath the Chelsea north drawbridge...
Death by a small calibre bullet was the official verdict listed yesterday after an autopsy on the body of Eugene E. Harmon '50, ex-College Freshman, who was found two days ago in the Mystic River beneath the Chelsea north drawbridge and presumed before the autopsy to be a victim of drowning...