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...there are as many transmission-tone variations as there are color girls. Often, as Huntley and Brinkley report, the audience just gets Chet tinted correctly (healthy suntan, hazel-brown eyes) when the producer cuts to David, who comes in as a lurid lavender. By the time Brinkley is attuned (pale pink skin, blue eyes), there is a switch to a remote Frank McGee looking sickly green at Cape Kennedy. Similarly, every break for a commercial or shift to another channel could require a readjustment. Given the errant ways of all flesh, a listener who wants realistic color can hardly afford...
...Allied captors at Nürnberg, the Field Marshal seemed to be the essence of all that was evil in Junkerdom. Tall and taciturn, a monocle screwed tight in one chilly pale eye, his boots gleaming with metronomic precision as he paced the stone floor of his cell, the prisoner never complained and never begged for mercy. When the gallows trap was sprung on Oct. 16, 1946, and Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel dropped to his death, it is doubtful that he had any regrets. Keitel had long before reached the end of his rope...
MONTEVERDI: IL BALLO DELLE INGRATE (Nonesuch). This musical play of 1608 taught the ladies of the Duke of Mantua's court a moral: Make love or you will go to Hades. As horrible examples, Pluto brings up from his dark kingdom an eternally damned bevy of pale beauties who, when on earth, "ungrateful, held every lover at a distance." Edwin Loehrer and the chorus and orchestra of the Società Cameristica di Lugano give the embryonic opera a convincing performance...
...Thailand's Chiangmai province rushed the royal elephant expert. It's true! he reported back to Bangkok. After studying the pale toenails, the pink about the eyes and the white about the ears, it could be certified that for the second time in the 19-year reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 38, a white elephant was born in Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes...
Fascinated in a somewhat different fashion, Hearst's Jim Bishop drew a less flattering portrait: "The lady is 60 inches of wrought iron. It is blonde and pale and unyielding. It isn't something that God wrought. Candace did it. From the day long ago, when the little Georgia belle found out females have an earthy attraction for males, Candace has coated that little body with so many veneers of honey and passion that if the real Candace stood up, Mrs. Mossier would probably disown...