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...Absentee Pied Piper...
...usual, the critics were kind. Liking the clear colors, clean shapes and easy sweep of Hancock's water colors, they winked at the abstract whatnots-right angles, arcs and bright balloons-with which he jazzes some of them up. Hancock, like elder Britons Paul Nash, John Piper and Graham Sutherland, divides his allegiance between traditional British landscape painting and abstraction; like them, he cannot bear to forsake either one altogether...
...forward post we found nine /bearded cavalrymen. They had just finished chow and were looking longingly at the fresh apple pie which a medical officer had forbidden them to eat because it was too heavy for half-starved men. "All Quiet." Corporal Edwin L. Piper of Company G, 2nd Battalion, who had kept snatches of a diary, told us the story of his week. Hard hit in the first enemy thrust, the remnants of his company had made two withdrawals, finally joined K Company of the 3rd Battalion on a hill where it had been trapped. Said Piper: "Company...
...arch humor misfires, seasoned Actors Gwenn and Coburn get some entertaining slapstick into their schoolboy posturings. Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey have little to do except exclaim about the way grandma is carrying on. As the daughter of the family, involved in a dreary little romance of her own, Piper Laurie plays a 17-year-old who seems to have matured every way except mentally...
...interrupted in mid-rehearsal and threatened with dire consequences if caught playing Western jazz a second time. In Cottbus, Communist police confiscated a stack of Western dance records and sent their owners to jail for two days. But the East German who was called upon to pay the piper most heavily for not calling the Communist tune was Egon Sander of Pirna. Last week Egon was dragged off the floor of a Pirna restaurant, sentenced to two years in prison for dancing the samba. The dance, said his Communist judges, was "endangering to the life of the state...