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Breasted predicted that outgoing captain Don Stephenson, a combined man who has starred at both jumping and cross country, will probably be invited to the Nordic Olympic Training Championship next winter...
...quite faithful to the book. Gary Cooper is taciturn and determined as the Montana college professor who comes to Spain to dynamite a bridge for the faltering Republic. Miss Bergman is tender and convincing as the young camp girl, though she seemed a bit too well-scrubbed and Nordic for the Spanish locale...
GONE are the days when tall, aloof Nordic blondes dominated the beauty contests. Last year a warm-skinned lovely from Peru was crowned Miss Universe and last week a fiery Miss Colombia won the title. For the switch from underplayed femininity to the bold smolder, see THE HEMISPHERE, Fire...
...footlighted runways of Long Beach, Calif., where Miss Universes have breathlessly accepted contracts, crowns and convertibles since 1952, the Nordic types had things pretty much their own way for five years. Glacial Grace Kelly was setting a world standard of beauty, the winning faces were aloof, the busts visible but not too obvious, the legs long and slim. Last year things suddenly went dark. Fire, not ice, won going away; Miss Universe was dark-haired, liquid-eyed Gladys Zender, 18, of Peru; second place went to a warm-skinned Miss Brazil, and the fourth-place trophy went home to Havana...
...home in Thebes; I whispered in Cassandra's ear; I felt secure in the shadow of the cross; I rode phantom horses through the Nordic lands and danced on the Northern twilight--among the apparitions of the imagination...