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...saga of the statue began last Tuesday, when it was dug up by a bulldozer a Hamilton, New York, after it had disappeared from Syracuse University. Frank Still, who was driving the bulldozer, took the bust to the home of Edgar J. Snitcher, on whose property he was working, and left it on Snitchler's front porch...
Nipped in the Budd. It is through such a novel series, the mammoth (ten volumes) Lanny Budd saga, that Novelist Upton Sinclair is best known to the younger generation. Almost buried under Lanny's insupportable weight has been the early Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, The Brass Check and Oil! Most admirers of the old Upton Sinclair have long felt sure that he would never manage to shake off limpet Lanny and re-emerge in anything like his old form...
...Gillis: Saga of a Prairie School (the New Symphony Orchestra, Don Gillis conducting; Texas Christian University, 6 sides). Composer-NBC Producer Gillis composed this, his "Symphony No. 7," in 1948 for the diamond jubilee of his alma mater. The pastoral passages have the feel of the prairie-of space and sagebrush, and there is some low-down hoedown too. The performance is good, the recording, made by London FFRR, excellent...
...Haida arrived at Bermuda the next afternoon, cheering islanders put out in small boats to welcome the destroyer. Newsmen crowded around to hear about the saga. "What did we talk about?" repeated Grable. "Well-'will you please move over and give me some room?' Only we didn't say 'please.' " Was there any hero in the lot? "Yeah," rumbled one ' sergeant, "there was 18 of them...
...City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography, and endless clips from newsreel racing shots give it a sort of juvenile vigor...