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Appassionato (Lux-Saga) is a genteelly lethargic Swedish-made film about a girl who is loved by one young and one not-so-young pianist. The middle-aged one never really has a chance. Few U.S. moviegoers will care particularly that this is a fairly dull-but well photographed-movie. What they will notice is the girl, Viveca Lindfors, auburn-haired alumna of the same Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy which gave Hollywood both Garbo and Bergman...
...years will tell on a house as thoroughly used as this old colonial structure. Much of the dated furniture now in place over the library was added by one of the four owners. The first of these, and the householder who played a large part in the Revolutionary saga of this area, was John Hicks, who built and occupied the house in 1762. Hicks was a carpenter by day and a burning patriot by both night and avocation. Although carpentry took his work-time, his days were rounded out by tax-collecting for the colonial government. Hicks' activities with...
...saga of Chip Gannon and Levi Jackson, due for three more years of exploration, started with a bang . . . . Levi looked very much like a frightened freshman in the opening quarter as he fumbled, stumbled, and then got off a kick on the bottom of his shoes . . . . Chip performed like a veteran, gaining the praise of both sides . . . . Jackson came back later in the game with a series of fine plays . . . . he almost went all the way once, but was stopped by a flying block by Gannon...
...Tarawa last week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod came upon a story oj incredible human endurance, the saga of a Gilbert Islands native who sailed 2,000 miles across the lonesome stretches of the South Pacific in a canoe. Nabetari's feat, unequaled in the lore of oceanic survival, has been officially confirmed. The story that follows is a simple English version prepared for translation into Gilbertese, which has only a 400-word vocabulary...
This did nothing to lessen the suspicions of the authorities, well versed in the fast-moving Rubinstein saga. Serge had been fleeing something, usually the authorities, most of his life...