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...Tribune article purported that Stevenson himself is disappointed with the momentum of his political odyssey. His speeches, the Tribune hinted, are not inspiring the voters as they should, and the crowds that are turning out to hear his attacks on Eisenhower have been smaller than hoped. Reportedly, the blame for this failure has been placed on Clayton Fritchey, Stevenson's press secretary. Fritchey, accordingly, would soon be fired for his own "failure to Jim Hagertize his way through this campaign" with sufficient effectiveness. These rumors, however, were vigorously denied the next day in Springfield by campaign manager Jim Finnegan...
Alex Falconer is a bearded, swashbuckling lieutenant who bullies his crew and junior officers, gulps down immense quantities of whisky, cheats at cards, and wenches indiscriminately. The slow trip down Britain's east coast becomes, in part, Lieutenant Falconer's uneasy odyssey in search of his own soul-a search begun when he learns that a chance bed companion is to bear him a child, and completed when he walks along the littered beach at Normandy. "All along the shore, bodies-beautiful, naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles...
...scene, a burlesque of America's industrial age, will be included as one of six in the play's second act. "The Golden Apple" is a musical which satirizes American society, set within the theme of the Illiad and the Odyssey...
...quarter of a century he headed the Perse School in Cambridge, where he made certain that each boy left with a conversational competence in the languages of Homer and Cicero. When he died in 1950 at 86, he left behind him first-rate, down-to-earth translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad that virtually returned Homer's classics to the common man. Total sales in the U.S. alone: 1,000,000 copies...
...appearance of this song as an American jazz hit marks the end of a remarkable odyssey; Mack the Knife, originally the prologue of Kurt Weill's famed Threepenny Opera, was first heard in Berlin 28 years ago. It also marks a remarkable revival, on records, of Kurt Weill's other music-the legacy of a strange, half-angry, half-sentimental genius...