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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ultimately, the story revolves around Manolios' effect on other people. With such a subject, the best description is indirect. Beside the dramatic use of crowds, Dassin traces individual characters. Although the entire cast performs laudably, the roles of Mary Magdelan and that of the Turkish Agha deserve special note, both for themselves and for the skill with which they are filled. The former experiences fully and convincingly the joys of virtue and of vice; the latter commits himself to detachment. Were his portrait drawn with less sympathy, a criticism of the Turk's detachment might be the biggest single answer...
...Christian Herter, bound from Washington for a quick weekend's rest in Green Pond, S.C. Also aboard the train, also bound for Green Pond was TIME Washington Correspondent Harold B. Meyers. Soon after the train pulled out of Washington's Union Station, Meyers handed a porter a note for the Herters, a few moments later was welcomed into their room for an informal interview ("I had known you were aboard," said Herter later, "and I must confess I was quite put out about it"). While Meyers was having his chat with the soon-to-be-appointed Secretary...
...three short months the pretty, blue-eyed servant girl had found friends, a good job, and happiness under Austrian freedom. But last week 19-year-old Smilja Srca was ordered by the Austrian government to return to Yugoslavia. Leaving her mistress a thank-you note in a language the lady could not read, Smilja told the family children goodbye, crept out into the Alpine night and put a bullet through her head. She survived, but the bullet destroyed the optic nerve connections of both eyes, and she will never see again...
...much of the credit for the young scholar's enormous feat of learning must go to Denver's top-ranked school system. Justin Brierly, coordinator of college counseling for Denver schools, summed it up in a way that other schoolmen might well note: "Bill had the natural talent, and our system has two things to offer: early detection of gifted students and a suitable and intensified program to provide them with full development...
...especially encouraging note for the Crimson was Boulris' fine play at third base, where Shepard has been hard pressed to find an adequate fielder. Boulris also collected two hits, as did Ravenel, who broke out of a frustrating post-spring trip slump...